Reinder van der Meulen

Reinder van der Meulen (; 28 May 188217 April 1972) was a Dutch linguist. He received his doctorate in 1907. He was appointed a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1925. From 1900 to 1907, he was in Leiden, then at the University of Leipzig where he studied Baltic and Slavic languages. Under the supervision of August Leskien, he defended his thesis on Nature comparisons in Lithuanian songs and laments (Die Naturvergleiche in der Liedern und Totenklagen der Litauer Lithuanian 1919, translated by M. Biržiška). From 1946 to 1952, he was Full Professor of Baltic and Slavic languages at Leiden University. He published articles on Lithuanian onomastics and the Prussian language in the publications of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works

By Meulen

R. van der Meulen, Zwei litauische Totenklagen aus dem Gouvernement Wilna, "Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung", 44, 1911, 360-366. Meulen R.van der. Peter de Grote en het Hollandsch // . 1913. Vol. 13. III. Р. 117-138; R. van der Meulen, Garntos prilyginimai lietuvi 14 dainose ir raudose. IS vokieei14 kalbos verte M. B[ iriis]-ka, Vilnius 1919

Reinder Van der Meulen: Russisch leesboek met woordenlijst, 1947.

. Meulen, R.van der: Het lexicon vokabularm novym ро alfavitu (Mededelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afdeling Letterkunde. Nieuwe serie. Deel 13. Ne 9). Amsterdam,

On Meulen

J. Schaeken, "Hollando-Slavica II: Reinier van der Meulen (1882-1972)", Zjoernal Severjanin 4 I 5, 1994,3-8. Schaeken 1998