F. B. J. Kuiper
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Born | Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper 7 July 1907 |
Died | 14 November 2003 Zeist, Netherlands | (aged 96)
Spouse | Hanna Nieboer |
Children | 4 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Leiden |
Thesis | Die indogermanischen Nasalpräsentia: ein Versuch zu einer morphologischen Analyse (1934) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Indo-European linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Indology |
Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər, Dutch: [ˈkœypər]; July 7, 1907 – November 14, 2003) was a Dutch scholar in Indology, and "one of the last great Indologists of the past century ... His very innovative work covers virtually all the fields of Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan philology, linguistics, mythology and theater, as well as Indo-European, Dravidian, Munda and Pan-Indian linguistics".[1]
Biography
[edit]Kuiper was born in The Hague, studied Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, and in 1934 completed his doctoral thesis on the nasal presents in Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages. After give years as a high school teacher of Latin and Greek at the lyceum of Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia, in 1939 he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University.
Kuiper was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1937 and 1939, when he resigned. He became a member again in 1948.[2] He was a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He died in Zeist and was buried in the Rijnhof cemetery at Leiiden.
References
[edit]- ^ Witzel, Michael (2017-08-18). "F.J.B. Kuiper 1907-2003". Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies: 1–17. doi:10.11588/EJVS.2004.1.2151.
- ^ "F.B.J. Kuiper (1907 - 2003)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- 1907 births
- 2003 deaths
- Dutch Indologists
- Linguists from the Netherlands
- Linguists of Nihali
- Writers from The Hague
- Leiden University alumni
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- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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