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Paul Hoftijzer

Paul Hoftijzer 80 Notes and news PAUL HOFTIJZER As from i September 1992 Dr P.G. Hoftijzer (1954), lecturer in the English Depart- ment/Sir Thomas Browne Institute of Leiden University, has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of the History of the book trade and publishing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), on behalf of the Dr P.A. Tiele Stichting, a founda- tion for promoting the scholarly study of books and printing and related techniques. Prof. Hoftijzer is to begin his lectures in the spring of 1993 in consultation with the Department for Book, Library and Information Sciences (BBI), Faculty of Letters, of the University of Amsterdam. He held his initial lecture on Tuesday 29 September 1992. This lecture was one of a series of lunchtime lectures on book-historical research in the Netherlands, jointly organised by the Tiele Foundation and the BBI Department between 29 September and 27 October 1992. STAMP AND TYPE DESIGNER SEM HARTZ TURNS 80 The eightieth birthday of the stamp and type designer Sem Hartz (b. 28 January 1912) has not gone unnoticed. The NOS television network set the ball rolling with a documentary program: 'Het oog van Hartz' [The eye of (the master) Hartz]. It was broadcast on 17 January 1992 in the series 'Markant' [Notable] on Dutch channel 3, assembled and with interviews by Ton Neelissen and edited by Henk Suer. This television portrait received favourable notice in the press. In it, Hartz shows himself a masterful conversationalist with a ready supply of anecdotes. We see him with his London friends in the Double Crown Club; in the Rijksmuseum Meermanno- Westreenianum, which has much work by Hartz in its collections; in his former studio at the printing office and typefoundry, Joh. Enschede en Zonen (since reloca- ted), where he worked more than forty years; and elsewhere. The Teylers Museum in Haarlem honoured Hartz with a small exhibition (29 January through 20 April 1992) giving an overview of his work. On display were stamps (he designed more than three-hundred), bank-notes, type designs, and publi- cations of his private press, along with portraits and engravings in steel, copper and wood. At the opening of the exhibition, Hartz was presented with the first copy of Essays, a collection of six articles he wrote during the period 1952 to 1962. These discuss his texttypes Emergo (1949) and Juliana (1958), and his close friends the (type) designers S.H. de Roos and Jan van Krimpen. The book is designed, set, and printed by Bram de Does (Aartwoud etc., 1992, 47 pp. illus., ISBN 90-6983-io4-X, f 44. 50; deluxe edition ISBN 90-6983-105-8, f 190). Now that type design in the Netherlands is seeing a remarkable flowering, and plans are under way to digitize designs from the days of metal type, we can hope that Emergo (the private type of Hartz's own Tuinwijk Press) and Juliana (which he designed for the Linotype hot-metal slug system) will be made available again for general use. MATHIEU LOMMEN http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Paul Hoftijzer

Quaerendo , Volume 23 (1): 80 – Jan 1, 1993

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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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1570-0690
DOI
10.1163/157006993X00253
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80 Notes and news PAUL HOFTIJZER As from i September 1992 Dr P.G. Hoftijzer (1954), lecturer in the English Depart- ment/Sir Thomas Browne Institute of Leiden University, has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of the History of the book trade and publishing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), on behalf of the Dr P.A. Tiele Stichting, a founda- tion for promoting the scholarly study of books and printing and related techniques. Prof. Hoftijzer is to begin his lectures in the spring of 1993 in consultation with the Department for Book, Library and Information Sciences (BBI), Faculty of Letters, of the University of Amsterdam. He held his initial lecture on Tuesday 29 September 1992. This lecture was one of a series of lunchtime lectures on book-historical research in the Netherlands, jointly organised by the Tiele Foundation and the BBI Department between 29 September and 27 October 1992. STAMP AND TYPE DESIGNER SEM HARTZ TURNS 80 The eightieth birthday of the stamp and type designer Sem Hartz (b. 28 January 1912) has not gone unnoticed. The NOS television network set the ball rolling with a documentary program: 'Het oog van Hartz' [The eye of (the master) Hartz]. It was broadcast on 17 January 1992 in the series 'Markant' [Notable] on Dutch channel 3, assembled and with interviews by Ton Neelissen and edited by Henk Suer. This television portrait received favourable notice in the press. In it, Hartz shows himself a masterful conversationalist with a ready supply of anecdotes. We see him with his London friends in the Double Crown Club; in the Rijksmuseum Meermanno- Westreenianum, which has much work by Hartz in its collections; in his former studio at the printing office and typefoundry, Joh. Enschede en Zonen (since reloca- ted), where he worked more than forty years; and elsewhere. The Teylers Museum in Haarlem honoured Hartz with a small exhibition (29 January through 20 April 1992) giving an overview of his work. On display were stamps (he designed more than three-hundred), bank-notes, type designs, and publi- cations of his private press, along with portraits and engravings in steel, copper and wood. At the opening of the exhibition, Hartz was presented with the first copy of Essays, a collection of six articles he wrote during the period 1952 to 1962. These discuss his texttypes Emergo (1949) and Juliana (1958), and his close friends the (type) designers S.H. de Roos and Jan van Krimpen. The book is designed, set, and printed by Bram de Does (Aartwoud etc., 1992, 47 pp. illus., ISBN 90-6983-io4-X, f 44. 50; deluxe edition ISBN 90-6983-105-8, f 190). Now that type design in the Netherlands is seeing a remarkable flowering, and plans are under way to digitize designs from the days of metal type, we can hope that Emergo (the private type of Hartz's own Tuinwijk Press) and Juliana (which he designed for the Linotype hot-metal slug system) will be made available again for general use. MATHIEU LOMMEN

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