Ferdinand van Ingen

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Ingen, not Ingen.

Ferdinand Jacobus van Ingen (8 December 1933 – 27 February 2021) was a Dutch scholar of Germanistics and a professor of German literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1972 to 1998.

Life

Van Ingen was born on 8 December 1933 in Maartensdijk.[1][2] He studied German studies, literary science, art history and musicology at Utrecht University, the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in 1962.[2]

From 1957 to 1962, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature in Utrecht. In 1964, Van Ingen became a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 1970, he became an associate professor and a full professor for new German literature in 1973.[2] He retired in 1998.[3]

Van Ingen published on German and Dutch literature of the 17th century.[2] He was known for his work on the Baroque time and contributed to expanding the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.[4] Van Ingen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.[5]

He died in Zeist on 27 February 2021.[1]

References

1. "Ferdinand Jacobus van Ingen". NRC Handelsblad. 6 March 2021. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021.
2. "Holländisch-deutsche Wechselbeziehungen in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts(1981)–Ferdinand van Ingen" (in Dutch). Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020.
3. "Het begrip Oostenrijkse literatuurgeschiedenis, problemen en perspectieven" (in Dutch). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 16 August 2020.
4. Martin Bircher and Guillaume van Gemert (1995). "Brückensläge Eine barocke Festgabe für Ferdinand van Ingen" (PDF) (in German). Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2019.
5. "Ferdinand van Ingen". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.