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Johan Huizinga

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Johan Huizinga

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Also known as J. Huizinga, Huizinga, Professor Dr. Johan Huizinga, Johan Huizing

Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)

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Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) was a Dutch author whose professional activity spanned from 1887 until his death. He is associated with a body of work that includes *The waning of the Middle Ages*, *L'automne du Moyen âge*, *Keur van gedenkwaardige tafereelen uit de vaderlandsche historiën*, *Mensch en menigte in Amerika*, and *Erasmus in den spiegel van zijn brieven*.

Records indicate that Huizinga has 131 works listed in the Open Library, while Crossref data cites five works. A quote attributed to him states, "The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America." His name appears in 153 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1872
Died
1945
Works
131

Top works

  • The waning of the Middle Ages
  • L'automne du Moyen âge
  • Keur van gedenkwaardige tafereelen uit de vaderlandsche historiën
  • Mensch en menigte in Amerika
  • Erasmus in den spiegel van zijn brieven

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1966-10-15
jazz

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
3

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Johan+Huizinga">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Johan Huizinga

Quotes

  • The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
  • Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.
  • Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
  • These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
  • History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Johan Huizinga ( Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Johan Huizinga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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