Frans de Liagre Böhl explained

Franz "Frans" de Liagre Böhl
Birth Name:Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl
Birth Date:16 August 1882
Birth Place:Vienna
Death Place:Milsbeek, The Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
Workplaces:University of Berlin, University of Groningen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Institute for the Near East
Alma Mater:University of Leipzig, University of Berlin
Notable Students:Arie Abraham Kampman (1911-1977)
Spouse:Maria Anna Dorothea Strasburger
Discipline:Assyriology, Hebrew, Old Testament studies
Children:four, including the historian and biographer Herman de Liagre Böhl (1943)

Franz "Frans" Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl (Vienna, Austria, 16 August 1882 – Milsbeek or Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16 November 1976) was a Dutch professor of Assyriology and Hebrew.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

His father was Eduard Böhl (1836-1903), a well-known Protestant clergyman and later a professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Vienna, who had married the daughter Anna of the influential Dutch Protestant theologian Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge (1803-1875). His second marriage was with Baroness Jacoba Frederica "Jacqueline" van Verschuer (1846-1921), who became Franz's mother.

In 1949 Franz Böhl added de Liagre to his surname Böhl, to prevent his grandmother's birth name from becoming extinct. He married Elisabeth Henriëtte Fabius (1886-1921) in 1914 and Marie Anna Dorothea Strasburger (1905-1996) in 1933. Franz de Liagre Böhl was the father of Herman de Liagre Böhl (1943), a Dutch historian and biographer of the Dutch poet Herman Gorter (1864-1927) and of his own father.

Education

De Liagre Böhl studied Assyriology and theology at the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and wrote two dissertations in German: Die Sprache der Amarnabriefe, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kanaanismen (a 1909 linguistic study, with translated title: The language of the Amarna letters, with special reference to (linguistic) Canaanisms), and Kanaanäer und Hebräer, Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Volkstums und der Religion Israels auf dem Boden Kanaans (a 1911 Licentiate thesis, with translated title: Canaanites and Hebrews, investigations into the prehistory of the people and religion of Israel on Canaan soil).

Career

After holding a teaching position as a Privatdozent in Berlin, De Liagre Böhl was appointed professor of Old Testament studies in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1913, as a successor to professor F.C. van den Ham, where he continued up to 1927. His field was Hebrew and Hebrew antiquity (Dutch: Hebreeuws en Hebreeuwse oudheden). In 1925 he was rector of the University of Groningen. De Liagre Böhl bought Felix Peiser's collection of cuneiform tablets, the start of his own collection, which he put on display in his Semitische Werkkamer (Semitic Workshop), with antiquities from the Levant and Mesopotamia.

In 1927 he was appointed professor of Assyriology (Dutch: Talen en de geschiedenis van Babylonië en Assyrië, Languages and history of Babylonia and Assyria) at Leiden University. In Leiden, Liagre Böhl lived at 17-18 Groenhovenstraat, where he also moved his Werkkamer.[6]

In the years 1926-1928 he worked as an epigrapher in the archeological campaign of his father's Berlin colleague professor Ernst Sellin at Tell-el-Balâta (Tell Balata), the site of the biblical town of Sichem (Shechem) near Nablus in Palestine.

The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

De Liagre Böhl was closely involved in the establishment of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, NINO) by his student Arie Kampman. From 1939 to 1955 De Liagre Böhl was a director of the Institute in tandem with the Egyptologist professor Adriaan de Buck (1892-1959). After De Liagre Böhl's retirement in 1953, he remained closely involved with the institute.He had sold his collection of more than 2000 objects, including cuneiform inscriptions of the Werkkamer to NINO in 1951. This Collection De Liagre Böhl comprises the largest collection of clay tablets in the Netherlands; some masterpieces are exhibited in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.[7]

Honours

In 1924 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8] He received several international university honorary appointments:

Bibliography

Works by Frans de Liagre Böhl

De Liagre Böhl published many scholarly works, including:[9]

Works by others

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Levensbericht F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl . Vriezen . Th.C. . 1976 . dwc.knaw.nl . Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum, Huygens ING, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen / Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 6 April 2023 . Dutch. Milsbeek is mentioned as his place of death.
  2. Web site: Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl (1882-1976) . hoogleraren.ub.rug.nl . Groningen University . 3 April 2023 . Dutch. Nijmegen is mentioned as his place of death.
  3. Web site: Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (na 1949 de Liagre Böhl) . 2023 . hoogleraren.universiteitleiden.nl . Leiden University . 3 April 2023 . Dutch. Nijmegen is mentioned as his place of death.
  4. Web site: Liagre Böhl, Franz Marius Theodor de. Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme, Deel 6 . Burggraaff . W. . 2006 . resources.huygens.knaw.nl . Huygens Instituut, Resources Huygens ING . 3 April 2023 . 168–170 . Dutch. Nijmegen is mentioned as his place of death.
  5. Web site: Leven en werk van Frans de Liagre Böhl. Een reizende studeerkamergeleerde . Teunissen-Nijsse . Petra . 16 February 2021 . biografieportaal.nl . Biografieportaal B.V. . 3 April 2023 . Dutch.
  6. In his honour the student house currently located at Groenhovenstraat 17, Leiden, still bears the name "Böhlerei".
  7. Web site: De Liagre Böhl collection . 2023 . www.nino-leiden.nl . The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) . 3 April 2023 . NINO is the owner of approximately 3000 cuneiform tablets of Sumerian and Babylonian/Assyrian origin, the largest collection of its kind in The Netherlands. The collection was brought together in the 1920s and ‘30s by F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl, Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University and Co-Director of NINO 1939-1955. Diverse text genres are present in the tablet collection: literary texts, omens, incantations, archival texts etc. In addition to the tablets, the collection includes a smaller number of seals, bullae, terracottas and other objects. . English.
  8. Web site: Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl . Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries . 10 December 2023.
  9. . Consulted on 6 April 2023.
  10. Web site: Die Sprache der Amarnabriefe mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kanaanismen . Böhl . Franz Marius Theodor . 1909 . archive.org . J.C. Hinrichs . Leipzig . 6 April 2023 . Zu einem grammatischen Abriss der sprachlichen Besonderheiten der Amarnabriefe, wie er im Folgenden versucht worden ist, gibt es nur wenig Vorarbeiten. . German.

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