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Necrologie

Necrologie NECROLOGIE R. H. VAN GULIK (1910-1967) On the 24th of September 1967, Dr. R. H. van Gulik passed away in a hospital in the Hague. Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, Guelderland, on the gth of August igio, as the son of a medical officer in the Nether- lands Indies Army. As a child, between his third and his twelfth year, he lived in Surabaya and Batavia (now Djakarta). Then the family returned to Holland, where van Gulik entered the classical gym- nasium at Nijmegen. It was here that the young man became acquainted with C. C. Uhlenbeck, the internationally known lin- guist, at that time professor of Sanskrit at Amsterdam University. The latter was struck by van Gulik's gifts and initiated him in Sanskrit, at the same time asking him for his help in the compila- tion of a dictionary of the language of the Blackfoot Indians [1, 3] 1) which this widely ranging scholar had been studying for some time2). As if the addition of Sanskrit to the full programme of a Dutch gymnasium were not enough, van Gulik also started to take private lessons in Chinese from a young Chinese who was at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Necrologie

Van Gulik, R.H.
T'oung Pao , Volume 54 (1): 116 – Jan 1, 1968
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Brill
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© 1968 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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10.1163/156853268X00042
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NECROLOGIE R. H. VAN GULIK (1910-1967) On the 24th of September 1967, Dr. R. H. van Gulik passed away in a hospital in the Hague. Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, Guelderland, on the gth of August igio, as the son of a medical officer in the Nether- lands Indies Army. As a child, between his third and his twelfth year, he lived in Surabaya and Batavia (now Djakarta). Then the family returned to Holland, where van Gulik entered the classical gym- nasium at Nijmegen. It was here that the young man became acquainted with C. C. Uhlenbeck, the internationally known lin- guist, at that time professor of Sanskrit at Amsterdam University. The latter was struck by van Gulik's gifts and initiated him in Sanskrit, at the same time asking him for his help in the compila- tion of a dictionary of the language of the Blackfoot Indians [1, 3] 1) which this widely ranging scholar had been studying for some time2). As if the addition of Sanskrit to the full programme of a Dutch gymnasium were not enough, van Gulik also started to take private lessons in Chinese from a young Chinese who was at

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