Gerard Jan Henk van Gelder FBA (born 10 June 1947) is a Dutch academic who was the

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at the

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from 1998 to 2012.

Life

After completing his secondary education at the

Vossius Gymnasium Vossius Gymnasium is a public gymnasium in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. It was established in 1926 and is named after Gerardus Vossius. In 2014, it was ranked best VWO school in Amsterdam and 4th in the country by RTL Nieuws. It is al ...

Amsterdam, Van Gelder studied at the

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, then worked as Librarian at the Institute for the Modern Near East at the University from 1973 to 1975. He was Lecturer in Arabic at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

from 1975 to 1998, gaining a doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1982. He was appointed as a member of the

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in 1994. He moved to the

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in 1998 to take up the position of

, becoming a

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. He became a

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in 2005. His publications include ''Beyond the Line: classical Arabic literary critics on the coherence and unity of the poem'' (1982) and ''Close Relationships: incest and inbreeding in classical Arabic literature'' (2005).

References

External links

Oxford web-profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gelder, Gerard Jan van 1947 births Living people Dutch librarians Van Gelder, Gerard Jan Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam alumni Leiden University alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen Van Gelder, Gerard Jan Van Gelder, Gerard Jan Writers from Amsterdam