Jan Beckering Vinckers
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| Jan Beckering Vinckers | |
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| Born | 24 October 1821 Winschoten, Netherlands |
| 💀Died | 19 December 1891 (aged 70) Groningen, Netherlands19 December 1891 (aged 70) |
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Jan Beckering Vinckers (Winschoten, 24 October 1821 - Groningen, 19 December 1891) was a Dutch linguist and professor of English language and literature at the University of Groningen, and an expert in comparative linguistics. He was among the finest minds in linguistics in the field of Germanic languages in the 19th century and, as a pioneer at the time, was called The father of comparative linguistics in the Netherlands.
Career[edit]
At the age of 18, Jan Beckering Vinckers became a teacher of old and new languages at the Gymnasium in his birth town of Winschoten. In 1854, Vinckers was appointed lecturer at the gymnasium in Kampen, where he worked first as an assistant at the old school and later as a teacher at the Hogere Burgerschool and the Reformed Gymnasium. He worked here for 32 years, teaching about 30 hours a week, while working on his own studies in his study room in the evenings. A series of Vincker's works in the field of Germanic languages studies were published in Kampen, mostly in the bulletins of Taal- en Letterbode and in Noord en Zuid. How much these studies attracted attention and were appreciated in the literary world is shown by the fact that Vinckers was appointed Doctor of Dutch Letters honoris causa in 1879 by the Senate of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. He was among the finest minds in linguistics in the field of Germanic languages and, at the time, he was called The father of comparative linguistics in the Netherlands.
In 1885 he was appointed professor of English language and literature at the University of Groningen, making him the first professor in that field at a Dutch university from 1885-1891. The speech, with which he accepted his professorship on 14 January 1886, is called: On the need for and utility of more scientific education for the practitioners of English language and literature here in the country (Haarlem 1886).
Vinckers published, among other works, the book The inauthenticity of the Oera Linda Book in 1876, using his thorough knowledge of Old Germanic to put an end to the sensational issue of the Oera Linda Book, and the manuscript has been considered a falsification ever since. In 1877, Vinckers published the article Who wrote the Oera Linda Book? as the beginning of the search for the author of the so-called Old Frisian medieval manuscript.
Family[edit]
Vinckers was a son of Johannes Meinardus Vinckers and Catrina Beckering. Vinckers was married twice, but only from the first marriage to Jentje Westenbrink Meijer (Amsterdam, 7 March 1831 - Scheveningen, 6 September 1900) were born nine children, including the linguist Harco Beckering Vinckers and Catrina Beckering Vinckers, who was married to the craftsman W.C. Jansen (of the clothing brand Jansen & Tilanus). At the age of 70, Vinckers died.
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