Archive Kornelis Sneyders de Vogel

Number of the description of the archive:

UBGcb016

Description of the archive made by:

Frida van Til, 2024

Description of the collection

Brief overview

Name of the archive: Archive Kornelis Sneyders de Vogel (1876-1958)

Provenance: Donation

Dated: 1897-1954

Size: 3 archive boxes

Language of the materials: Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian.

Summary: Archive of Kornelis Sneyders de Vogel, romanist

Archive number: UBG016

Institute: University of Groningen

Retainer: University Library Groningen

Provenance and acquisition

          Biography

Kornelis Sneyders de Vogel was born in Schiedam on 27 December 1876. He attended grammar school there, then studied classical literature at Leiden, where he obtained his doctorate in 1903 with a thesis: Quaestiones ad coniunctivi usum in posteriore latinitate pertinentes. From 1901 to 1904, he attended lectures in Paris at the Sorbonne, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, the Ecole des Chartes and the Collège de France.

In 1920, he succeeded Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave and held the chair of Roman philology at the University of Groningen. He did so until his retirement in 1946. His specialities were in French, Provençal, Old Spanish, Old Italian and Vulgar Latin.

Sneyders de Vogel published numerous contributions in the journal Neophilologus.

He was an honorary doctor of the universities of Montpellier and Lyon.

He died in Groningen on 26 August 1958.

Works by his hand:

De Studie van later latijn (public lecture given on accepting the professorship in Romanic language and literature at the University of Leiden, the 28th of September 1907). Leiden 1907.

Syntaxe historique du français. Groningen 1919, 389 Seiten; 2. Auflage 1927, 444 Seiten.

Hrsg. mit Louis-Fernand Flutre) Li Fet des Romains, compilé ensemble de Saluste et de Suetoine et de Lucan: texte du XIIIe siècle, publié pour la première fois d'après les meilleurs manuscrits, 2 Bde., Paris/Groningen 1935/1938, Genf 1977.

Geschiedenis der Provençaalse letterkunde. Den Haag 1951

          Acquisition

The archive is a donation.

          Future additions

          This was a one-off donation. So there will be no additions.

Contents and collation

The archive contains overprints, correspondence, journal issues, notebooks, speeches.

Instructions for users of the archive

          Accessibility

The archive is accessible for research purposes. To look at the archive, a University Library Access Pass is required.

          Limitations to use

The materials in this archive are available for viewing only. They cannot be borrowed. When consulting these materials, the rules set out in the Reglement voor de gebruikers van de Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen apply. Reproductions, insofar as they are allowed, are to be made in line with the rules set out in the Tarieven en diensten Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

          Accessing the archive

          An inventory of the archive is available.

          Citations

When referencing (materials from) this archive, the following information must be provided in full at least once. After this, an abbreviated citation suffices.

-       Archive: University Library Groningen, Archive Sneyders de Vogel

-       Individual items: Groningen, UB, Sneyders de Vogel [UBG016]

          Requests

The materials in this archive can be requested by sending an email to the Special Collections department or via SmartCat.