Johannes Alphonsus Huisman

Johannes Alphonsus Huisman (30 April 1919 – 7 February 2003), also known as J. A. Huisman, was a Dutch philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography Johannes Alphonsus Huisman was born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands on 30 April 1919. He received his Ph.D. in German philology at Utrecht University in 1950 under the supervision of . In May 1953, Huisman was appointed Professor of Comparative Germanic Linguistics and the Languages and Literature of the Germanic Peoples. He retired from the University of Utrecht in September 1982. The festschrift Palaeogermanica et onomastica (1989) was published in honor of Huisman on his 70th birthday. Huisman died in Zeist, Netherlands on 7 February 2003.

Selected works Neue Wege zur dichterischen und musikalischen Technik Walthers von der Vogelweide, 1950 De hel-namen in Nederland, 1953 De namen Betuwe en Veluwe, 1958 Plaatsnamen van sacrale oorsprong, 1959 Alliteratie in onze tijd, 1959 Nette en onnette woorden, 1962 Het Nederlands tussen dialect en wereldtaal, 1965 Edda, 1980