Bloemhoff, Dr H. (Henk)

Specialisms

Phonology, historical linguistics, lexicography, syntax and toponymy (Stellingwerfs and Lower Saxon).

Biography

Henk Bloemhoff (Nijeberkoop, 1948) studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Groningen (1971-'78), with Lower Saxon and Middle Frisian as subsidiary subjects. From 1978 to 1981, he worked as a dialectologist and from 1985 to 1988 as head of science at the IJsselacademie in Kampen. He also worked for some time at the Dutch and Low Saxon Institute of the University of Groningen, including for dissertation research, as a teacher of historical linguistics and as co-author of the Dictionary of Drenthe Dialects. The dissertation research concerned the testing of natural generative phonology using Stellingwerfs (PhD in 1991).

Bloemhoff is the founder and author of the four-volume Stellingswarfs Woordeboek (1994-2004). Between 1991 and 2009, Bloemhoff worked as a linguist at the Stellingwarver Schrieversronte Foundation. He also taught general and historical linguistics of Dutch in the master's and bachelor's programmes of the NHL (now: NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences) from 1979 until his retirement in 2013, the last years as senior lecturer.