Ferdinand van Ingen
Dutch scholar of Germanistics
About Ferdinand van Ingen
Lived 1933 – 2021 (aged 87). Ferdinand van Ingen was a literary historian, germanist and university teacher.
Ferdinand Jacobus van Ingen (8 December 1933 – 27 February 2021) was a Dutch scholar of Germanistics and a professor of German literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1972 to 1998.
Life Van Ingen was born on 8 December 1933 in Maartensdijk. He studied German studies, literary science, art history and musicology at Utrecht University, the Free University of Berlin and LMU Munich. He obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in 1962.
Van Ingen published on German and Dutch literature of the 17th century. Van Ingen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.
He died in Zeist on 27 February 2021.
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Dutch scholar of Germanistics (1933-2021)
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