Martijn Theodoor Houtsma

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Portrait of M. Th. Houtsma (1931)
L. J. Hartz (1869-1935)

Martijn Theodoor Houtsma (15 January 1851, in

Seljuks. He remains best known for his work as editor of the first edition (1913–38) of the standard encyclopedic reference work on Islam, the Encyclopaedia of Islam.[2]

Life and works

Houtsma was the son of Otto Evertz Houtsma, a wood miller and later the Mayor of

University of Utrecht and elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences.[8][9] At Utrecht, Houtsma used his position mainly for the organisation of Islamic research, though his abiding interest with the study of the Old Testament continued.[10] In 1898, he was appointed Chief Editor of the project initiated by the International Orientalist Congress to produce an encyclopaedia of Islam. This resulted in the publication of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam whose first volume appeared in 1913 in parallel English, German, and French editions.[11]
He retired from professorship in 1917 but stayed on at Utrecht.

Houtsma published the index volume to the Oriental Catalogue of the library at Leiden University, the Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae in 1875, and had worked closely with his senior, de Goeje, in enlarging its second edition, published in 1888.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. In 1921, he published a volume comprising the verses of the 12th century Persian poet Niẓāmī Ganjavī entitled Choix de vers tirés de la Khamsa de Niẓāmī (Selected Verses from the Khamsa of Niẓāmī) and contributed an article on the poet to the Volume of Oriental studies presented to Edward G. Browne (1922). Houtsma remains most well known, however, for his work as the Chief Editor of the first edition (1913–38) of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.[14]

Selected bibliography

  • De strijd over het dogma in den Islam tot op el-Ashcari. Leiden, (1875)
  • Histoire des Seldjoucides de l'Iraq. Leiden, (1889)
  • 'Bilder aus einem Persischen Fālbuch'. In: Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, Vol. III, (1890)
  • De Ontwikkelingsgang der hebreeuwsche taalstudie. Utrecht, (1890)
  • M. Th. Houtsma "Some Remarks on the History of the Saljuks", in Acta Orientalia. 3 (1924).
  • M. Th. Houtsma et al. (eds.): The Encyclopædia of Islam. A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples. 4 vols. and Suppl., Leiden: Brill, (1913–38)

See also

References

  1. ^ "M.Th. Houtsma (1851–1943)" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  2. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00101182
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  3. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 129
  4. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 129
  5. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 129
  6. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 130
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  8. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 129
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  10. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 130
  11. ^ J. van Sluis, Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Kok, Kampen, 2006, Vol. 6, p. 130
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  14. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00101182
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