Rudolf Vleeskruijer
Male, Person
1916 –
Who is Rudolf Vleeskruijer?
Rudolf Vleeskruijer was a Dutch professor in the English language and Old English literature at the Utrecht University.
Vleeskruijer lived a part of his youth in England. From August 1945 to May 1946 he was an interpreter for the Allied Forces as a conscript NCO in the Dutch Army.
He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and received his bachelor degree on July 17, 1941. After obtaining his master's degree on June 29, 1948, he took up a study in 1949 at the University of Oxford. To Vleeskruijer was granted the title B.lett.Oxon at this university by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1951.
In 1958 he founded the English Institute of the University of Utrecht. Vleeskruijer was married and had three children. Hij died aged 50 in Zeist.
He was commemorated in 1966 in an article in English Studies, A Journal of English language and Literature
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- Born
- Jan 18, 1916
- Education
- St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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