About Rudolf Vleeskruijer
Lived 1916 – 1966 (aged 50). Rudolf Vleeskruijer was a Dutch linguist and university teacher.
Degree Rudolf Vleeskruijer (B.Litt.Oxon), signed by J.R.R. Tolkien Rudolf Vleeskruijer (also spelled as Vleeskruyer) (Amsterdam, 18 January 1916 - Zeist, 2 June 1966) was a Dutch professor in the English language and Old English literature at the Utrecht University.
Vleeskruijer spent a part of his youth (1924 to 1929) in England. From August 1945 to May 1946, he was an interpreter for the Allied Forces as a conscript NCO in the Dutch Army.
He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and received his bachelor's degree on 17 July 1941. After obtaining his master's degree on 29 June 1948, he took up a study in 1949 at the University of Oxford (St. Catherine College). Vleeskruijer was granted the title B.lett.Oxon (Bachelor of Letters Oxoniensis) at this university by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1951.
In 1958, he founded the English Institute of the University of Utrecht. Vleeskruijer was married and had three children.
He died at age 50 in Zeist. In 1966, he was commemorated in an article in English Studies, A Journal of English language and Literature
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