Matthijs Siegenbeek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Matthijs Siegenbeek

Dutch academic

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1774

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1854

Profession: writer, professor, theologian, university teacher, Dutch language specialist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Matthijs Siegenbeek (Dutch pronunciation: [m?'t?is 'si??(m)?be?k]; 23 June 1774 in Amsterdam – 26 November 1854 in Leiden) was a Dutch academic.
From 1797 to 1847 he was the first professor of the Dutch language at the University of Leiden.
From 1803 he was the member, then secretary, of the head-office of that university's literary faculty.
Initially he was a Mennonite voorganger in Dokkum.