This article is about the Dutch historian. For the American physicist, see John Huizenga.
Johan Huizinga
Born
(1872-12-07)7 December 1872
Groningen, Netherlands
Died
1 February 1945(1945-02-01) (aged 72)
De Steeg, Netherlands
Occupation(s)
Historian, professor, writer
Academic background
Influences
Jacob Burckhardt
Academic work
Discipline
History
Institutions
Groningen University (1905–1923) Leiden University (1915–1942)
Notable works
The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919)
Homo Ludens (1938)
Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century (1941)
Johan Huizinga (Dutch:[ˈjoːɦɑnˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
JohanHuizinga (Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history...
historian and cultural theorist JohanHuizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga suggests that play is primary...
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in 1932), is the best-known work by the Dutch historian JohanHuizinga. In the book, Huizinga presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism...
Waning of the Middle Ages by JohanHuizinga." Daedalus 1974 103(1): 35–43. ISSN 0011-5266; R. L. Colie, "JohanHuizinga and the Task of Cultural History...
Echoes of Burkhardt's approach in the 20th century can be seen in JohanHuizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919). Most often the focus is on phenomena...
Dukes of Burgundy were the creators of a Burgundian or Belgian nation. JohanHuizinga reused the concept out of convenience at the beginning of the 20th century...
(Warsaw 2010) Three people at a dive bar (Boston 2023) According to JohanHuizinga, fun is "an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody...
Dutch cultural historian JohanHuizinga argued that games were a primary condition of the generation of human cultures. Huizinga saw the playing of games...
1904. List of dragons in popular culture List of fictional princesses JohanHuizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages p 83 ISBN 0-226-35992-1 Northrop Frye...
ceremonial and rules of etiquette in the 14th century that was examined by JohanHuizinga in The Waning of the Middle Ages, which dedicates a chapter to "The...
resulting in a bourgeois class with leisure time to devote to the arts. JohanHuizinga (1872–1945) acknowledged the existence of the Renaissance but questioned...
pp. xi–xvi (11–16). JohanHuizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) 1924:75. Doulton, op. cit., pp. 360–361 JohanHuizinga, The Waning of the Middle...
1945 without having been nominated for the prize. The Dutch historian JohanHuizinga and Austrian-Bohemian author Franz Werfel died months before the announcement...
The authors borrow the term magic circle from the book Homo Ludens by JohanHuizinga, using it to describe the space within which a game takes place. They...
'religion' of the Golden Fleece, of a knight 'of the religion of Avys'".JohanHuizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) 1924:75. "Religio". Latin Word...
writers and moralists of the 14th and 15th centuries. The historian JohanHuizinga has written: "It is astonishing that the Church, which so rigorously...
Jacques de Longuyon in his Voeux du Paon (1312). Their selection, as JohanHuizinga pointed out, betrays a close connection with the romance genre of chivalry...
history, Burckhardt (in common with later Dutch cultural historian JohanHuizinga) saw himself as working in the tradition of the French romantic historian...
Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2021. JohanHuizinga remarks in his book The Waning of the Middle Ages, "the source of the...
committed suicide after the Allied forces captured Leipzig. 1945 – JohanHuizinga died in De Steeg in Gelderland, near Arnhem, where he was held in detention...
Petar Gabrovski, acting Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1898) JohanHuizinga, Dutch cultural historian (b. 1872) Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (executed)...
viewers, while individual portraits became more evocative and alive. JohanHuizinga said that art of the era was meant to be fully integrated with daily...
are Louis de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud, JohanHuizinga, Jean Piaget, Jacques Presser and Jan Romein. His translation of George...
on elaborate temporary stands along the path of the main procession. JohanHuizinga, in The Autumn of the Middle Ages, describes the use and design of tableaux...
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