Archive Etsko Kruisinga

Number of the description of the archive:

UBGcb021

Description of the archive made by:

Frida van Til, 2023

Description of the collection

Brief overview

Name of the archive: Archive Etsko Kruisinga (1875-1944)

Provenance: Donated by A.J. van Essen

Dated: 1897-1944

Size: 10 archive boxes

Language of the materials: Dutch, English, German, Basque, Afrikaans

Summary:

          Archive of Etsko Kruisinga (Leens, 8 december 1875 – Schiedam, 15 february 1944), Dutch anglicist and   grammarian.

Archive number: UBG021

Institute: University of Groningen

Retainer: University Library Groningen

Provenance and acquisition

          Biography

          Etsko Kruisinga was a Dutch anglicist and grammarian. He gained international fame for his expertise       and publications about grammar, spelling and phonetics. He started his career in 1894 in Groningen,     studying English and Dutch at the University of Groningen.

          He received his doctorate in 1904, under the guidance of Karl Daniel Bülbring, a German professor of       English language and linguistics. The doctorate was jointly awarded by the University of Groningen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. Kruisinga’s dissertation was entitled A Grammar of           the Dialect of West Somerset.

          In 1922, Kruisinga became a teacher at a precursor to the School voor Taal- en Letterkunde (School for    language and linguistics) in the Hague, a training institute for future language teachers. In 1933 he   became headmaster at this school, and in 1936 he was awarded a professorship. He held both of these positions until his death in 1944.

          Kruisinga was a founding member of the Vereniging van Leraren in Levende Talen (Society for language    teachers). After a disagreement with the society he started his own periodical Taal en Leven (Language   and life). Kruisinga was also an editor for the bi-monthly publication English Studies, A Journal of English         Language and Literature.

          Kruisinga was a prolific scholar, publishing nearly twenty monographs and over 600 articles in his            career. His work is used to teach students across Europe, and is particularly popular in Germany.

          Notable published works:

·        A Grammar of the Dialect of West-Somerset, Descriptive and Historical. Bonn, 1905.

·     A Grammar of Modern Dutch. London, 1924 (1949).

·     A Handbook of Present-Day English. I English Sounds, II (in 3 volumes) English Accidence and Syntax. Groningen, 1931/32.

·     Einführung in die deutsche Syntax. Groningen, 1935.

·     An English Grammar. I Accidence and Syntax (in 2 volumes). Groningen, 1941. II Grammar and Idiom. Groningen, 1935.

·     Het Nederlands van nu. Amsterdam, 1938.

·     Diminutieve en affektieve suffixen in de Germaanse talen. Mededeelingen der Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Vol. 9, No. 9. Amsterdam, 1942.

·     The Phonetic Structure of English Words. Bern, 1943.

          Acquisition

          The archive was donated to the University.

          Future additions

          No future additions are expected.

Contents and collation

      The archive contains correspondence, literature, manuscript versions of his work, as well as research        notes and newspaper clippings.

Instructions for users of the archive

          Accessibility

The archive is accessible for research purposes. To look at the archive, a University Library Access Pass is required.

          Limitations to use

The materials in this archive are available for viewing only. They cannot be borrowed. When consulting these materials, the rules set out in the Reglement voor de gebruikers van de Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen apply. Reproductions, insofar as they are allowed, are to be made in line with the rules set out in the Tarieven en diensten Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

          Accessing the archive

          An inventory of the archive is available. The inventory is based off the structure and organization developed by Kruisinga and Van Essen.

          Citations

When referencing (materials from) this archive, the following information must be provided in full at least once. After this, an abbreviated citation suffices.

-       Archive: University Library Groningen, Archive Etsko Kruisinga.

-       Individual items: Groningen, UB, Etsko Kruisinga [number].

          Requests

The materials in this archive can be requested by sending a mail to the Special Collections department.