Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet

Dutch academic

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1817

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1885

Profession: politician, professor, historian, translator, university teacher, Dutch language specialist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet (6 July 1817, The Hague – 19 October 1885, Wiesbaden) was a Dutch historian, best known for work on medieval poetry. From 1835 he was a student at the University of Leiden.
After pursuing medicine and law, he turned to Low German literature.
From 1847 at Deventer, he became a professor at Leiden in 1878. In 1855 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.