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Collection Overview
Title: Albert Hyma Collection, 1923-1970
ID: COLL/128
Primary Creator: Albert Hyma (1893-1978)
Extent: 7.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Professor of history, University of Michigan. The collection includes correspondence, lectures, articles, reports, book reviews, manuscripts, pamphlets, miscellaneous notes dealing with Reformation History, Young Calvinist Federation, and an index to De Grondwet on the early settlers at Holland, Michigan.
Biographical Note
Albert Hyma was born in Groningen, the Netherlands on March 18, 1893. With his parents, Hyma immigrated to the United States in 1910. They found temporary housing in Grand Rapids, Michigan where they stayed with relatives. The Hyma family purchased farmlands in Grant, Michigan where they finally settled down.
Hyma wanted to continue with formal education, so he attended Calvin College from 1913-1914 and went on to complete his undergraduate work at University of Michigan. He also earned his M.A. in German from the same university. Hyma began his teaching career in the German department of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. In 1922, Hyma earned his Ph.D. in history from once again the University of Michigan. Hyma accepted a history staff position at the University Of North Dakota and soon became an assistant professor.
In 1924, Hyma returned to the University of Michigan, not as a student, but as a professor of history. He stayed at the University of Michigan for the remainder of his career, with some interruption of being a guest professor at several other universities. In 1927, Hyma married Vera Alberta Nodine. Together they had three children and shared the mutual interest of historical studies. Hyma retired from the University of Michigan in 1962.
Hyma also had opportunities to travel back to Europe for academic purposes. Funded by the Algemeen Nederlansch Verbond, a Dutch patriotic society, Hyma traveled across Europe from 1919-1921. During his travels, he was able to track down many valuable long-lost historical docents. In 1928, he once again found an opportunity to return to Europe, this time as a Guggenheim Fellow. Because of his scholarly endeavors for Dutch history, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands knighted him in 1936. Throughout Hymas’ life, he received many other honors and awards such as fellowship in the Royal Historical Society, winner of the Henry Russell award from University of Michigan, and fellowship in the Society of Dutch Literature. Dr. Hyma was also a prolific writer, author of The Christian Renaissance: A History of the “Devotio Moderna (1924), Renaissance to Reformation (1951, 1955) and co-authored the history textbook The Growth of European Civilization (1936) among his other numerous published books, articles, and book reviews. Hyma passed away from heart failure during a hip operation on September 22, 1978.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1928-1970],
[Series 2: Articles],
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Series 3: Manuscripts, Papers],
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Series 4: Bound Manuscripts],
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Series 5: Pamphlets and Articles],
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- Series 2: Articles
- Box 4
- Folder 1: "Laurence Sterne and John Hall-Stevenson"
- Folder 2: Letter of Van Hemert
- Folder 3
- Item 1: "In Het Land Van Scholte en Van Raalte (II)", Letter --- August 5, 1957
- Item 2: "Menschen en Feiten"
- Item 3: "The meeting of February 4, 1857, in the Church of Graafschaap"
- Item 4: "Professor Albert Hyma Gaf College in Nijmegen"
- Item 5: "Reize Naar Noord-Amerika"
- Folder 4: Various reports: four articles
- Folder 5: "Early Evidences of Catholic Reform in the thought and Actions of Bartholomeus Arnoldi von Usingen"
- Folder 6: "Martin Luther and John Eck, August to October 1518"
- (three copies)
- Folder 7: "Champions in the Fight for Social Justice"
- Folder 8
- Item 1: "An Important New Edition from Archon"
- Item 2: "The Rev. George N. Smith and the Indians near Black Lake"
- Item 3: "The Minutes of the Consistory of the Congregation Led by Rev. R. H. Smit at Drenthe, Michigan"
- Item 4: "Herinneringen Aan Ds. Roelof Smit en Zijne"
- Item 5: "The Scotch Church at Drenthe, Michigan"
- Item 6: "From the Minutes of the Reformed Church at Vriesland, Michigan"
- Item 7: "The Latest News on Gysbert Haan"
- Item 8: "The Latest News on the Founding of the Christian Reformed Church"
- Item 9: "Report by Albert Hyma about His Research in Ann Arbor on December 21, 1965"
- Item 10: "From the Minutes of the Classis Holland, Michigan, 1849-1859"
- Folder 9: "The Northern Renaissance"
- Folder 10: "Gods Gunst Gedacht"
- Folder 11: "Report on the New History of Grand Rapids"
- Folder 12: "The Human Relations Commission of Grand Rapids, Michigan"
- Folder 13: "The Authorship of 'Unio Dissidentum'"
- Folder 14: "The Rise of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Grand Rapids, Michigan"
- (two copies)
- Folder 15: "The Scholarly Work of Gabriel Richard"
- (two copies)
- Folder 16: Treaties of Nijwegen; "Memoire"
- Folder 17: Letters of Windesheim People to Monasteries in France
- Folder 18: "Erasmi Roterdami"; poems by and items on Erasmus
- Folder 19: G. Feugen's Unpublished letters of Geert Groote
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1928-1970],
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Series 3: Manuscripts, Papers],
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Series 4: Bound Manuscripts],
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Series 5: Pamphlets and Articles],
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