Lambert ten Kate
Lambert ten Kate | |
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| Born | 23 January 1674 |
| Died | 14 December 1731 |
| Cause of death | A lingering illness |
| Spouse | Not married |
| Parent | Mennonites |
Lambert ten Kate (23 January 1674 - 14 December 1731) was a Dutch linguist. His specialization was in comparative historical linguistics He was also a well known art collector. He remained a bachelor.
Early life
Ten Kate was born in Amsterdam to Mennonite parents.[1]
Career
Early in his career, ten Kate was a merchant, as partner in his father, Herman ten Kate's (1644-1706} business of trading in corns, though it was not his preference. It is said that he once worked as a home teacher, is one of the many myths surrounding his person. He went on to write linguistic and theological treatises. His entire life was spent on Dutch and other Germanic languages His famous work is Geméénschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche ('Affinities and Similarities between the Dutch and Gothic Languages) published anonymously. Thirteen years later his magnum opus publication was a two-volume Aenleiding tot de kennisse van het verhevene deel der Nederduitsche sprake ('Introduction to the knowledge of the most important part of the Dutch language').[2]
His first published work on linguistics was at the instigation of his fellow townsman Adriaen Verwer. In his Aenleiding tot de kennisse van het verhevene deel der Nederduitsche sprake (1723), he made scientific comparisons of older language stages. By observation of the written and spoken language of his own time, he developed linguistic rules to detect and capture language changes. His work in this area was more nuanced than most linguists of the time. As his publications were all in his native Dutch language and not in Latin, he was not known internationally. He died of a lingering illness in Amsterdam in 1731.[1]
Publications
His major publications are the following.[3]
- AJ van der Aa, Biographical dictionary of the Netherlands. Part 10 (1862)
- F. Jos. van den Branden and JG Frederiks, Biographical dictionary of the northern and southern Dutch Literature (1888-1891)
- PJ Blok and PC Molhuysen, New Netherland biographical dictionary. Part 5 (1921)
- K. at Avenue Literary dictionary for North and South (1952)
- Wim van Anrooij, Ingrid Biesheuvel, Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Jan Noordegraaf, and Bio-bibliographical dictionary of neerlandistiek (2004 - ...)
See also
References
- ^ a b Auroux, Sylvain (1 January 2001). Auroux, Sylvain; Koerner, E.F.K.; Niederehe, Hans-Josef; Versteegh, Kees: History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1116–. ISBN 978-3-11-019421-0. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Lambert ten Kate and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Linguistics" (pdf). Open Access Leiden University. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Lambert ten Kate Hz" (in Dutch). Dbnl.org. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
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