Collection Overview
Title: Johannes Stellingwerff Collection, 1975
ID: COLL/243
Creator: Stellingwerff, Johannes (1924-)
Extent: 0.25 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Director of the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) Library, writer, and editor. The collection includes a translation of Amsterdamse Emigranten: Onbekende Brieven uit de Prairie van Iowa, 1846-1873 by John H. Yzenbaard.
Biographical Note
Johannes Stellingwerff was born in Groningen, the Netherlands on December 5, 1924. Stellingwerff attended Technische Hoogeschool [Delft Polytechnic University] and studied civil engineering. He went on to earn his doctorate in 1959. He became the librarian for the newly opened Technical University in Eindhoven, Netherlands. By 1960 Stellingwerff moved on to become the librarian at the Free University of Amsterdam. He would stay at the Free University for twenty-seven years. Stellingwerff was also a writer, he published Inzicht in Virtual Reality: een media-filosofie als reisgids voor het landschap van de geest and Doeff van Deshima, kenner van Japan, Koopman en diplomat.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: English translation of Amsterdamse Emigranten