Archive Hendrikus van Berkum

Number of the collection: UBG 045

Callnumber: uklu 045 Van Berkum

Description of the archive made by: Frida van Til, 2023

Brief overview

Name of the archive: H., van Berkum, (1814-1871), reverend.

Provenance: Museum of Antiquities. Original call number: M.V.O. PORT 116 NO34

Dated: 1851-1871

Size: 1 box

Language of the materials: Dutch, German

Summary: Hotel bills, business cards, domestic passport of Helene Agatha Josephine van Berkum (1871). On back of the business cards there are stamps from the Museum of Antiquities in Groningen.

Institute: University of Groningen

Retainer: University Library Groningen

Provenance and acquisition

Biography:

Hendrikus van Berkum was born on 3 November 1814 in Wanswerd, as the son of a preacher. Like his father, Hendrikus became a preacher and served successively the congregations of Wolsum, Westhem, Stiens, and Nieuw-Beerta. He died on November 7, 1871, in Nieuw-Beerta.

Van Berkum also made translations of edifying German booklets and wrote romantic-historical works in which he outlined the pietistic movement in the Netherlands in the late seventeenth century.

His two most important books are De Labadie en de Labadisten: eene bladzijde uit de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Hervormde Kerk (1851) and Antoinette Bourignon: een beeld uit de kerkelijke geschiedenis der XVIIde eeuw (1853).

Acquisition: Donation by the Museum of Antiquities.

Future additions: No future additions are expected.

Contents and collation: The archive includes, amongst other things, hotel bills, business cards, and a domestic passport of Helene Agatha Josephine van Berkum (1871). On the back of the business cards are stamps from the Museum of Antiquities in Groningen.

Contents archive Hendrikus van Berkum:

Instructions for users of the archive

Accessibility

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Limitations to use

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The right of publication rests with the Library of the University of Groningen as owner of the collection.

Citations

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Archive: University Library Hendrikus van Berkum

Individual items: Groningen UB 045

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