Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African linguist and ethnologist
A.K.A. N.J. van Warmelo
Was Linguist
Ethnologist
Anthropologist
From South Africa
Type Literature
Social science
Gender male
Birth

1904, Pretoria, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

Death

1989
(aged 85 years)

Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo, né à Pretoria le 28 janvier 1904, mort en 1989, est un linguiste, anthropologue et ethnologue sud-africain.

Bibliographie

N. J. van Warmelo est né le 28 janvier 1904 à Pretoria et est le fils unique de Willem van Warmelo, directeur de la section d’hydrographie. Il est diplômé en 1921 à l’Oosteind Hoërskool et obtient un M.A. en langue classique à l’Université de Stellenbosch. Il étudie au Seminar für Afrikanische Sprachen de l’Université de Hambourg de 1925 à 1928, obtient son doctorat en 1927 et donne cours en 1928. En 1929, van Warmelo est le directeur de département des langues noires de l’Université du Witwatersrand.

Il devient ethnologue d’État le 7 mars 1930 et occupe ce poste jusqu’à sa retraite en 1969 mais continue à occuper un poste temporaire, travaillant sur des projets de recherches inachevés.

Ouvrages principaux

  • N.J. van Warmelo, Tshivenḓa–English Dictionary, Pretoria, Government Printer, coll. « Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications », 1937
  • N.J. van Warmelo, Teo dza Tshivenḓa: Venda Terminologie — Venda Terms, Pretoria, Government Printer, coll. « Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Series », 1958
  • N.J. van Warmelo, Anthropology of southern Africa in periodicals to 1950 : an analysis and index, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1977
  • N.J. van Warmelo, Venda Dictionary: Tshivenḓa–English, Pretoria, J.L. van Schaik, 1989, 490 p.

Bibliographie

  • (en) « Van Warmelo Collection », sur University van Pretoria, Department of Library Services
  • (en) The NJ van Warmelo Collection, Archiving, special collections and institutional repository department, Library and information centre, University of Johannesburg, avril 2003
  • (af) R.D. Coertze, « Obituary/Huldeblyk: N. J. van Warmelo 1904‒1989 », South African Journal of Ethnology, vol. 12, n 3,‎ 1989, p. 85‒90
  • (en) W.D. Hammond-Tooke, Imperfect interpreters: South Africa’s anthropologists, 1929-1990, Johannesburg, 109‒118 p.
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