Archive Gerrit Wassing

Brief overview

Title: Collection Gerrit Wassing

Number of the Collection: UBG036

Provenance: Wassing, Gerrit (1925-2015)

Date: 1952-2015

Size: 11 cm

Language (material): Dutch

Summary:

Archive of Gerrit Wassing (1925-2015), pastor and writer

Institution: University of Groningen Library

Depository: University of Groningen Library

Provenance and acquisition

Biography

Wassing (Groningen 1925 – Assen 2015) studied law and art history in Groningen. He became a stenographer in both houses of the States General after service in India; meanwhile he was studying theology and Egyptology in Leiden and Amsterdam. He was pastor in Dantumawoude and Leeuwarden, he was also army chaplain several years. He started writing haiku and prose in Dutch and urban Groningen. His first Groningen-language texts appeared in Krödde from 1999. The novel Met de vouten in t wotter was awarded the literary prize from of the foundation t Gronninger Bouk in 2003. He received the Tine Clevering-Meijer prize for he story De poppenspeuler in 2003. He co-wrote a fictional exchange of letters in the 15^th century Swaalfies rond Auwerd.

Acquisition

The collection was handed over to the University Library in 2020 by mediation of Prof. Wouter Slob, Zuidlaren.

Future additions

No additions are expected.

Content and composition

The collection contains letters, handwritten and printed material, hunches and newspaper clippings.

Instructions for the user

Disclosure restrictions

The collection is available for research.

The publishing rights are owned by the University of Groningen Library.

Access

An inventory of the archive is available.

Instructions for citing

The collection should be referred to in this way:

• Collection: University of Groningen Library, Collection Gerrit Wassing.

• Separate items: Groningen, UB, Wassing.

Requesting the collection

The materials in this archive can be requested by sending a mail to the Special Collections department or through Smartcat, the online library catalogue.