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HERWERDEN, Hendrik van

  • Hendrik van Herwerden
  • Date of Birth: September 17, 1831
  • Born City: Beetsterzwaag
  • Born State/Country: The Netherlands
  • Parents: Claudius Henricus, a pastor, & Maria Anna Susanna Elisabeth Sara Schilling van H.
  • Date of Death: November 18, 1910
  • Death City: Utrecht
  • Death State/Country: The Netherlands
  • Married: Henriette Galathea van Deen, April 5, 1865.
  • Education:

    Latin School, Assen, 1847-9; Leiden, 1849-55; Ph.D., 1855; 3-year travel and study in Spain, France, and Italy.
  • Dissertation:

    “Observationes criticas in fragmenta comicorum graecorum” (Ph.D., Leipzig, 1855; publ. as Dissertatio literaria continens observationes criticas in fragmenta comicorum Graecorum (Leiden: Brill, 1855).
  • Professional Experience:

    Teacher, Instituut Noorthey, Voorschoten, the Netherlands, 1858-60; teacher, Greek, Gymnasium Groningen, 1860-2; Gymnasium, The Hague, 1864-1902; ordinarius, Greek, Utrecht, 1864-1902 ; rector, 1876-7; private lectr., Utrecht, 1902-10; member. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1870; corr. Memb., Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences, 1888; Provincial Utrecht Society of Sciences & Arts, 1902; Corr, memb., Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1902; hon. Memb., Greek Scientific Society Athens, 1892; Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 1886.
  • Publications:

    Spicilegium Vaticanum continens novas lectiones in Historicorum Graecorum Excerpta quae primus edidit Ang. Maius (Leiden: Brill 1860); Dionysii Halicarnassensis epistolae criticae tres (Groningen: Bothuis Hoitsema, 1861); Exercitationes criticae in poeticis et prosaicis quibusdam Atticorum monumentis. (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1862); Pindarische Studien (Berlin: E.S. Mittler, 1863); Lysiae Orationes selectae (Leiden: G.F. Theonville, 1863);, Nova Addenda critica ad Meinekii Opus:quod inscribitur Fragmenta comicorum graecorum. (Leiden: Doesburgh, 1864); De recentiorum literarum cognitione futuro philologo haud contemnenda (speech) (Utrecht: 1864); Sophoclis Oedipus Rex (Utrecht: Bosch, 1866); Analecta critica ad Thucydidem Lysiam Sophoclem Aristophanem et Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta (Utrecht: Beljers, 1868); Studia Thucydidea (Utrecht: J.L.Beljers, 1869); Animadversiones philologicae ad Theognidem (Utrecht: Beljers, 1870); Appendix ad Studia critica in Poetas Scenicos Graecorum (Amsterdam: C.G. Van der Post, 1872); Adnotationes criticae et exegeticae ad Euripidem (Amsterdam: C.G. Van der Post 1873; pars altera, 1874); Excerpta e poetis Graecis (Utrecht: Kemink, 1873, 2nd ed. 1886); Euripides, Ion (Utrecht: Kemink, 1875); De dekaloog (Utrecht: A.J. Van Huffel, 1876); Quaestiunculae epicae et elegiacae (Utrecht: Kemink, 1876); Plutarchea et Lucianea cum nova Marciani codicis collatione (Utrecht: Beljers, 1877); De moribus Graecorum aetate Homerica. (1872 retirement speech; Utrecht, 1877); Thucydides 5 vols. (Utrecht 1877–82); De Agamemnon van Aeschylus (Utrecht: n.p., 1878; Emendationes Aeschyleae (Leipzig: Teubner, 1878); Traiecti ad Rhenum, de dialecto Attica testimonia (Utrecht: Beijers, 1880);  Lucubrationes Sophocleae (Utrecht: J.L. Beijers, 1887); Pindarica commentatio ex supplementis annalium (Leipzig: Teubner, 1882); Rheno-Traiectinae ad varios poetas et scriptores Graecos (Leiden: Brill, 1882); Commentatio critica In Herodoti libros I und II. (Utrecht: Beljers, 1883); Orationes tres Antiphon. (Utrecht: Beijers,1883, 1890); Herodotus. Historia, 4 vols. (Utrecht: Kemink, 1884–8); Studia critica et epicritica in Pindarum (Utrecht: J.L. Beijers, 1884); Lucubrationes Sophoclea (Utrecht: Beijers, 1887); Symbolae exegeticae et criticae ad Xenophontis Historiam Graecam (Utrecht: Beijers, 1888); Euripidis Hypsipylae fragmenta (Utrecht: Oosthoek, 1909); Antigone van Sofokles. In Nederlandsche dichtmaat… (Utrecht: Beijers, 1890); De republica. Atheniensium, with J. van Leeuwen (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1891); Studia Critica in Epigrammata Graeca (Leiden: Brill, 1891); Euripides Helenê (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1895); Aristophanes Pax. (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1895); Platons Phaion (Amsterdam: S.L. van Looy, 1898); Orationes in quibus etiam Amatoria a Platone servata cum fragmentis… (Groningen: Wolters, 1899); Platons Phädon(Amsterdam: S. van Looy, 1898); Lexicon graecum, suppletorium et dialecticum,2 vols. (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1902);Collectanea critica, epicritica, exegetica sive Appendix ad Theodori Kockii opus Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta (Leiden:Sijthoff, 1903); Appendix Lexici Graeci suppletorii et dialectici (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1904); Vindiciae Aristophaneae (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1906).
  • Notes:

    Henrik van Herwerden’s father was a minister who also studied antiquity. sacrificed for son’s education. Originally intending to study mathematics and natural sciences, he realized that his prospects for university employment would be greater with a classics degree. His professors Carel Gabriel Cobet (1813-89), Reinhart Dozy (1820-83), John Bake (1787-64) drew him to classics. Whose creative imagination and ingenuity ruthless accuracy Encouraged students to read widely. At Utrecht he organized faculty and served as rector. He is best remembered as a prolific church historian and a philologist, with notable essays or readers on numerous Greek authors, his five-volume edition of Thucydides, (1877-92), four-volume Herodotus (1884-8), editions of Antiphon (1890) and Lysias (1899) and his two-volume lexicon of Greek dialects (1902-10). He was a member of numerous European scholarly societies, but his work is not well known a century later. 
  • Sources:

    Henrico van Herwerden viro clarissimo s.p.d., ed. S.A.Naber (Utrecht: Kemink,1902); J. van Leeuwen, Jr, JAWA (1911) 51-77 with bibliography.
  • Author: Ward Briggs