Editing Johan Huizinga (section)

==Life==
[[File:Professoren Nieuwenhuis en Huizinga, SFA001019999.jpg|thumb|left|Huizinga (right) with the ethnographer [[Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis|A.W. Nieuwenhuis]], [[Leiden]] (1917)]]
[[File:Leiden - Doelensteeg 16 (Johan Huizinga).jpg|thumb|Huizinga plaque at [[Leiden University]] ]]

Born in [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]] as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of [[physiology]], and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/huizin.htm |title=Johan Huizinga |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210175324/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/huizin.htm |archive-date=10 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> he started out as a student of [[Indo-European languages]], earning his degree in 1895. He then studied [[comparative linguistics]], gaining a good command of [[Sanskrit]]. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of the [[jester]] in Indian drama in 1897.

In 1902 his interest turned towards [[Middle Ages|medieval]] and [[Renaissance]] history. He continued teaching as an Orientalist until he became a Professor of General and Dutch History at [[Groningen University]] in 1905. In 1915, he was made Professor of General History at [[Leiden University]], a post he held until 1942. In 1916 he became member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001026 |title=J. Huizinga (1872 - 1945) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

In 1942, he spoke critically of his country's German occupiers, comments that were consistent with his writings about [[Fascism]] in the 1930s. He was held in detention by the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] between August and October 1942. Upon his release, he was banned from returning to Leiden. He subsequently lived at the house of his colleague [[Rudolph Cleveringa]] in [[De Steeg]] in [[Gelderland]], near [[Arnhem]], where he died just a few weeks before Nazi rule ended.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hugenholtz|first= F.W.N.|title=Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945)|work= Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn1/huizinga |date=November 12, 2013}}</ref> He lies buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in [[Oegstgeest]].<ref>Van Ditzhuijzen, Jeannette (September 9, 2005). ''Bijna vergeten waren ze, de rustplaatsen van roemruchte voorvaderen''. Trouw (Dutch newspaper), p. 9 of supplement.</ref>