Wytze Gerbens Hellinga (20 December, 1908 Haarlem - 16 March, 1985 London) was a Dutch professor of linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.
Hellinga was the son of Gerben Hellinga, a school master and Taatske Zwart, a writer of children's books. Whilst his father adhered to the strict Dutch Reformed Church his mother was a militant socialist and friend of Nienke van Hichtum, who encouraged her in her career.[1]
Hellinga completed his doctorate on the pronunciation of the Dutch language in 1938 at the University of Amsterdam. He had been supervised by Willem Jacob Verdenius.[1] He was later appointed professor at the University in 1946. He remained at the university until his retirement in 1979.[2]
He discovered the only known extant copy of Joos Lambrecht's sixteenth century first edition of the Naembouck (1547) in the library of the Groot Seminarie Warmond.[3]
In 1973 he married Lotte Hellinga, a former student of his. They had co-authored the book The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries published in 1966.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Dibbets, G.R.W. (2015-01-12). "Hellinga, Wytze [Gs] (1908-1985)". resources.huygens.knaw.nl (in Dutch). Huygens ING - Amsterdam. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "Album Academicum". albumacademicum.uva.nl. University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Cickx-Indestege, E. (1971). "The first edition of the Naembouck by Joos Lambrecht (1546)". Quaerendo. 1 (1): 13–15. doi:10.1163/157006971X00040.
