6/29/2023 0 Comments Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga![]() ![]() Upon his release, he was banned from returning to Leiden. He was held in detention by the Nazis between August and October 1942. ![]() In 1942, he spoke critically of his country's German occupiers, comments that were consistent with his writings about Fascism in the 1930s. In 1916 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1915, he was made Professor of General History at Leiden University, a post he held until 1942. He continued teaching as an Orientalist until he became a Professor of General and Dutch History at Groningen University in 1905. In 1902 his interest turned towards medieval and Renaissance history. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of the jester in Indian drama in 1897. He then studied comparative linguistics, gaining a good command of Sanskrit. Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-European languages, earning his degree in 1895. ![]()
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