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Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)

Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019) Willem Pieter GerritsenOn 24 October 2019, our friend, colleague and inspiring master Willem Pieter (Wim) Gerritsen died suddenly. In 1953, Wim began to study Dutch language and literature at Utrecht University, where he soon attended the lectures of Maartje Draak (1907–1995), the eminent specialist in Celtic studies who had witnessed the birth of the International Arthurian Society in 1946. She introduced him to medieval literature and roused his life-long passion for the literary traditions of Saint Brendan and the Arthurian hero, Lancelot. In Paris, where he studied for two years and met his future wife, Gisela Geywitz, in the reading room of the Bibliothèque nationale, the renowned Romanist and Arthurian scholar Jean Frappier (1900–1974) guided his quest for a deep knowledge of medieval literature. In 1963, supervised by Maartje Draak, Wim completed his PhD, devoted to the study and edition of the two Middle Dutch renditions of the Old French Vengeance Raguidel. This monograph in two volumes, Die Wrake van Ragisel (Assen: Van Gorcum), is still an indispensable point of departure for investigations into the Arthurian literature of the medieval Low Countries, in particular with regard to the medieval poetics of translation and adaptation.In 1968, at the age of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)

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Willem Pieter GerritsenOn 24 October 2019, our friend, colleague and inspiring master Willem Pieter (Wim) Gerritsen died suddenly. In 1953, Wim began to study Dutch language and literature at Utrecht University, where he soon attended the lectures of Maartje Draak (1907–1995), the eminent specialist in Celtic studies who had witnessed the birth of the International Arthurian Society in 1946. She introduced him to medieval literature and roused his life-long passion for the literary traditions of Saint Brendan and the Arthurian hero, Lancelot. In Paris, where he studied for two years and met his future wife, Gisela Geywitz, in the reading room of the Bibliothèque nationale, the renowned Romanist and Arthurian scholar Jean Frappier (1900–1974) guided his quest for a deep knowledge of medieval literature. In 1963, supervised by Maartje Draak, Wim completed his PhD, devoted to the study and edition of the two Middle Dutch renditions of the Old French Vengeance Raguidel. This monograph in two volumes, Die Wrake van Ragisel (Assen: Van Gorcum), is still an indispensable point of departure for investigations into the Arthurian literature of the medieval Low Countries, in particular with regard to the medieval poetics of translation and adaptation.In 1968, at the age of

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2022

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