Die philosophie des 17. jahrhunderts. herausgegeben von Jean-Pierre Schobinger

Matthijs Siegenbeek in Defence of Dutch

“…Finally, some of the lecture notes kept in manuscript form also comprise extensive linguistic parts, for example the Aantekeningen van M. Siegenbeek and the Academische voorlezingen are largely devoted to an overview of Dutch normative grammar. 32 Due to the aforementioned inherent interrelatedness of language, literature and rhetoric, Siegenbeek often also commented upon linguistic issues in publications on rhetoric and literary history, for example in his essay on the seventeenth-century poet Vondel, in his concise history of Dutch literature, and in his two inaugural lectures of the late 1790s, when he fijirst became an extraordinary professor, and in 1799 a full professor. 33 Despite the fairly wide variety of linguistic themes discussed in Siegenbeek's works, he is fijirst and foremost associated with and still remembered for his 1804 spelling regulation, which was part of what is generally known as the Schrijftaalregeling ('lit.…”