Anton van Duinkerken
Anton van Duinkerken (actually Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Anthony Asselbergs; born January 2, 1903 in Bergen op Zoom, † July 27, 1968 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch writer, literary historian and speaker.
Life
Van Duinkerken was born into a Catholic family and wanted to become a theologian first. He proposed in 1915 for the school this way with the small seminary in Ginneken, and then continued his education in Hoeven continued. During this time Van Duinkerkens first work, published in 1927 under the title Onder Gods ogen was born. He decided to abandon his priestly formation in favor of a future as a poet and attended henceforth the Roomsch - Katholieke Empty Come in Tilburg.
1927 Van Duinkerken was also an employee of the Catholic daily De Tijd and moved to Amsterdam in 1929, the editorial office of the newspaper. He was an important personality of the young Catholic renewal movement and in this capacity also employees or editor of magazines roeping and De Gemeenschap. 1930 married Van Duinkerken Leonie Arnold, with whom he had four sons and four daughters.
In the prewar years he became known as a voice against bourgeois life and one of him as a " relaxation " perceived tendency in Catholic life and turned against irrationalism. 1929 began a 10 -year-old debate with his atheistic oriented colleagues Menno ter Braak. Since 1934, Van Duinkerken also worked for the literary magazine De Gids.
Van Duinkerkens opposition to National Socialism brought him during the German occupation of the Netherlands 1942, the internment camp in Sint- Michielsgestel one. Shortly after the liberation of the country, he suffered a car accident, by his right hand remained permanently impaired. Van Duinkerken resorted increasingly to the study of literature, and in 1948 professor of art history at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This and a similar activity in Leiden he gave in 1952 in favor of a professorship in general and Dutch literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen on, but meant this step for him the task of membership in the Partij van de Arbeid.
As a universally oriented Literaturbistoriker Van Duinkerken remained present until his death in public. Also His dialogue with Menno ter Braak and his membership in the Partij van de Arbeid show him to be an early exponent of the social process that led to the Entsäulung the Netherlands.