Johannes Alphonsus Huisman

Johannes Alphonsus Huisman, also known as J. A. Huisman, was a Dutch philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography

Johannes Alphonsus Huisman was born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands on 30 April 1919. He received his Ph.D. in German philology at Utrecht University in 1950 under the supervision of. In May 1953, Huisman was appointed Professor of Comparative Germanic Linguistics and the Languages and Literature of the Germanic Peoples. He retired from the University of Utrecht in September 1982. The festschrift Palaeogermanica et onomastica was published in honor of Huisman on his 70th birthday. Huisman died in Zeist, Netherlands on 7 February 2003.

Selected works

Neue Wege zur dichterischen und musikalischen Technik Walthers von der Vogelweide, 1950De hel-namen in Nederland, 1953De namen Betuwe en Veluwe, 1958Plaatsnamen van sacrale oorsprong, 1959Alliteratie in onze tijd, 1959Nette en onnette woorden, 1962Het Nederlands tussen dialect en wereldtaal, 1965Edda, 1980