Maurice Vliegen

This essay surveys the linguistic publications of J.J.A.A. Frantzen in Dutch periodicals. Frantzen (1853 – 1923) was the first Germanic scholar with a chair at the University of Utrecht, appointed in 1908. Central are the Umlaut and the Konjunktiv as phenomena of the historically oriented German grammar.

Keywords:
German Studies, foreign languages, history of science, German literature, Germanic Studies, academic careers, Auslandsgermanistik, language teaching