Mia Gerhardt

Mia Irene Gerhardt (1918–1988) was a Dutch medievalist and professor of comparative literature at the University of Utrecht.

Irene Mia Gerhardt
Born	(1918-12-28)28 December 1918 Domburg
Died	13 November 1988(1988-11-13) (aged 69)
Nationality	Dutch

Education and career

Her parents were Ida Blankevoort and Dirk Reinier Gerhardt.^[1] Gerhardt attended the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam. She went on to study French at the University of Groningen.

From 1946 to 1950 she was a scientific assistant at the University of Leiden. In 1950 she earned her Ph.D. Between 1950 and 1968 Gerhardt was a lecturer in French language studies. As such, she was connected to both the University of Groningen and the University of Utrecht. In 1968 she became a professor at Utrecht. In 1971 she became a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Science.^[2]

Publications

• 1953: "Iets over het gebruik van de eerste persoon in verhalend proza"^[3]
• 1955: "Don Quijote. La vie et les livres"
• 1956: "Het droombeeld van de Gouden Eeuw"
• 1957: "Les voyages de Sindbad le marin"'
• 1963: "The art of story-telling. A literary study of the thousand and one nights"
• 1964: "Two wayfarers. Some medieval stories on the theme of good and evil"'
• 1967: "Old men of the sea. From Neptunus to Old French luiton: ancestry and character of a water-spirit"^[4]
• 1968: "Zevenslapers en andere tijd-verliezers"
• 1977: "Bestiarium morale: Commilitonibus suis carmina selecta seruit"
• 1988: "Het 'testament' van Adriaan Bommenee. Praktijkervaringen van een Veerse bouw- en waterbouwkundige uit de 18e Eeuw" (eindredactie)

Scientific articles (selection)

• 1949: "Les premières traductions des Bucoliques". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 33, afl. 1.
• 1949: "Maupertuis". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 33, afl. 3.
• 1955: "L'Imagerie de Sylvie". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 39, afl. 1.
• 1957: "Malherbe et les Muses". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 41, afl. 1.
• 1958: "'L'Octavie' de Nerval". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 42, afl. 1.
• 1959: "Metrische schema's van het lange vers". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 43, afl. 3.
• 1962: "Medieval story-telling". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 46, afl. 3.
• 1965: "The ant-lion. Nature Study and the Interpretation of a Biblical Text^[5]". In: Vivarium. Vol. 3, afl. 1.
• 1966: "Knowledge in Decline. Ancient and medieval information on "ink-fishes" and their habits". In: Vivarium. Vol. 4, afl. 1.

Personal life

Gerhardt was the sister of poets Ida Gerhardt and Truus Gerhardt. She married J. Engel, a professor of medieval Latin. After the death of her husband, Gerhardt moved to Domburg. Gerhardt was a member of the Netherlands Malacological Society. In 1977, Gerhardt took over the editorship of the yearbook of this society.^[6] Her collection of fossilised shells was donated to the Naturalis Museum in Leiden after her death.^{[7][user-generated source]}