Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet [SEP] native language
Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet
Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet (6 July 1817, The Hague – 19 October 1885, Wiesbaden) was a Dutch historian, best known for work on medieval poetry.
From 1835 he was a student at the University of Leiden. After pursuing medicine and law, he turned to Low German literature. From 1847 at Deventer, he became a professor at Leiden in 1878.
In 1855 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Works.
- "Geschiedenis der
in Aschbach, Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany) and Catharina Josephina Leys. His father was a cabinetmaker. His two younger brothers Willem and Egide were both painters and engravers. His two nephews Willem and Ben Linning were also involved in art as painter/engravers or art historians.
Jozef Linnig trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts where Erin Corr taught him engraving and Jan Baptiste de Jonghe painting.
Jozef Linnig made many drawings and etchings of the old quarters and monuments of Antwerp. In 1868 he published a '