Toon Van Hal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1009034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toon Van Hal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toon |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Hal |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4599-5342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ninety new Greek proverbs of Hermodorus Rhegius: Edition and textual history
In the early seventeenth century, the Greek Jesuit Hermodorus Rhegius (1579–1655) compiled a collection of Greek proverbs which constitutes important evidence for early modern Greek language and culture. Little is known about Hermodorus aside from his pastoral and educational work across the Aegean islands, primarily on Chios. For over two centuries, his proverbs were known mainly through the work of Charles Du Cange, who cited twenty-seven of th…
Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain
This paper explores the reception of classical works in Early Modern Britain during the hand press era, between the 1470s and 1790s. It investigates canon formation, knowledge transmission, and the integration of digital archives in quantitative book history. The study quantitatively maps changing perceptions of the classical canon across time, offering a panoramic view of 'shifting canons'. The analysis is based on three data archives: the Engli…
Linguistics ante litteram in the Learned Journals of the Enlightenment
This article examines the role of eighteenth-century learned journals in centralizing and structuring scholarly disciplines, with a focus on linguistics ante litteram. It considers whether these publications shaped the formation of distinct scholarly fields. The study offers an overview of early modern journal research, focusing on corpus-based methods, before embarking on a comprehensive approach to early modern journals through a number of case…
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
status: Published
Un spécimen qui parle de lui-même: Les fonctions des collections multilingues du Notre Père au XVIe siècle
Cet article explore l’intérêt des érudits de la Renaissance pour les traductions multilingues de l’oraison dominicale pendant le « long seizième siècle », en examinant les diverses approches adoptées. Durant cette période, de nombreux humanistes ont, en effet, initié des recueils de versions traduites de l’oraison dominicale à des fins diverses. Le rôle didactique est une caractéristique notable des premières publications polyglottes, visant à en…
A Precursor and Successor to William Jones: Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn’s Contribution to the Scythian Theory and Comparative Linguistics
In an increasing number of general introductions to historical linguistics, Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn, a seventeenth-century Leiden scholar, is taking William Jones’ place as ‘founding father’ of comparative linguistics. This article focuses on Boxhorn’s investigations into and explanations for the similarities between several European languages and a number of Asian languages, currently known as the Scythian theory. After providing a chronological …
How to Deal with Scholarly Forgetting in the History of the Humanities: Starting Points for Discussion
This contribution serves to start a more thoroughgoing discussion about the phenomenon of scholarly forgetting within the humanities beyond disciplinary boundaries. How can one explain the fact that knowledge, at some point circulating in the scholarship, eventually sinks into oblivion and, in some cases, even escapes the attention of the historian of scholarship? The essay argues that each instance of scholarly forgetting should be understood ag…
Traditions, innovations, and connections in writing the history of linguistics
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The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries 1
1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries1 was published in Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics on page 1
Imprimeurs et libraires de la Renaissance. Le travail de la langue: Sprachpolitik der Drucker, Verleger und Buchhändler der Renaissance
The Role of Vernacular Proverbs in Latin Language Acquisition, c. 1200–1600: An exploratory study
This paper examines the continuities and discontinuities in language teaching between the Middle Ages and the early modern era by drawing attention to the role of bilingual Latin-vernacular proverb collections in premodern education, a subject that has hitherto been neglected in the historiography of linguistics. The focus is on bilingual collections that are of Dutch origin. The paper aims to show that there was an active culture of teaching Lat…
Differing only in dialect', or How collocations can co-shape concepts
Merchants, scholars and languages: The circulation of linguistic knowledge in the context of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
This paper offers an initial exploration of the impact of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC) on the circulation of linguistic knowledge. After presenting some forgotten Dutch linguistic fieldworkers who operated overseas, and after examining the fate of their works in Europe, we will examine in a second part the degree to which Europe-based scholars actively solicited VOC-actors to pass on information about the world’s languages
Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
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Protestant Pioneers in Sanskrit Studies in the Early 18th Century: An overlooked chapter in South Indian missionary linguistics
Sanskrit has played a notable role in the history of the language sciences. Its intensive study at the turn of the 19th century went hand in hand with the institutionalization of linguistics as an independent academic discipline. This paper endeavours to trace the earliest Sanskrit studies conducted by Protestant missionaries in Tranquebar (present-day Tharangambadi in Tamil Nadu) under the auspices of theDänisch-Hallesche Missionfrom 1706 onward…
One continent, one language? Europa Celtica and its language in Philippus Cluverius' Germania antiqua (1616) and beyond
Today's European Union is keen to point out that one of Europe's main characteristics is its linguistic diversity. Some early-modern scholars, however, emphasised the notion of European monolingualism, even though Europe's linguistic diversity was as obvious in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as it is today. These scholars advanced the argument that, in a distant past, Europeans had spoken one single language. This article focuses on t…
Éléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544–1554
Jean de Drosay. Éléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544–1554. Ed. Alberte Jacquetin-Gaudet. Textes de la Renaissance 185; Traités sur la langue française 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 424 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-2-8124-1144-1. - Volume 67 Issue 4
On language diversity and relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
Jac. van Ginneken onder vuur: Over eigentijdse en naoorlogse kritiek op de taalkundige J. J. A. van Ginneken S. J . (1877–1945). Von Gerrold van der Stroom
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Language Origins, Language Diversity, and Language Classification in Early Christian Latin Authors: Outline of a research project in progress (2011-2015)
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When Quotation Marks Matter: Rhellicanus and Boxhornius on the differences between thelingua Gallicaandlingua Germanica
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Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614
The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated ma…
À la recherche d'une grammaire perdue: Johann Ernst Hanxleden’s Grammatica Grandonica retrieved
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Ontheven aan de tijd: Linguïstisch-historische studies voor Jan Noordegraaf bij zijn zestigste verjaardag . Ed. by Lo van Driel & Theo Janssen
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Merchants, scholars and languages: The circulation of linguistic knowledge in the context of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
This paper offers an initial exploration of the impact of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC) on the circulation of linguistic knowledge. After presenting some forgotten Dutch linguistic fieldworkers who operated overseas, and after examining the fate of their works in Europe, we will examine in a second part the degree to which Europe-based scholars actively solicited VOC-actors to pass on information about the world’s languages
Protestant Pioneers in Sanskrit Studies in the Early 18th Century: An overlooked chapter in South Indian missionary linguistics
Sanskrit has played a notable role in the history of the language sciences. Its intensive study at the turn of the 19th century went hand in hand with the institutionalization of linguistics as an independent academic discipline. This paper endeavours to trace the earliest Sanskrit studies conducted by Protestant missionaries in Tranquebar (present-day Tharangambadi in Tamil Nadu) under the auspices of theDänisch-Hallesche Missionfrom 1706 onward…
Language Origins, Language Diversity, and Language Classification in Early Christian Latin Authors: Outline of a research project in progress (2011-2015)
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When Quotation Marks Matter: Rhellicanus and Boxhornius on the differences between thelingua Gallicaandlingua Germanica
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Ontheven aan de tijd: Linguïstisch-historische studies voor Jan Noordegraaf bij zijn zestigste verjaardag . Ed. by Lo van Driel & Theo Janssen
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Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614
The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated ma…
À la recherche d'une grammaire perdue: Johann Ernst Hanxleden’s Grammatica Grandonica retrieved
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When Quotation Marks Matter: Rhellicanus and Boxhornius on the differences between thelingua Gallicaandlingua Germanica
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Language Origins, Language Diversity, and Language Classification in Early Christian Latin Authors: Outline of a research project in progress (2011-2015)
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On language diversity and relationship from Bibliander to Adelung
Jac. van Ginneken onder vuur: Over eigentijdse en naoorlogse kritiek op de taalkundige J. J. A. van Ginneken S. J . (1877–1945). Von Gerrold van der Stroom
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One continent, one language? Europa Celtica and its language in Philippus Cluverius' Germania antiqua (1616) and beyond
Today's European Union is keen to point out that one of Europe's main characteristics is its linguistic diversity. Some early-modern scholars, however, emphasised the notion of European monolingualism, even though Europe's linguistic diversity was as obvious in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as it is today. These scholars advanced the argument that, in a distant past, Europeans had spoken one single language. This article focuses on t…
Éléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544–1554
Jean de Drosay. Éléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544–1554. Ed. Alberte Jacquetin-Gaudet. Textes de la Renaissance 185; Traités sur la langue française 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 424 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-2-8124-1144-1. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Merchants, scholars and languages: The circulation of linguistic knowledge in the context of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
This paper offers an initial exploration of the impact of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC) on the circulation of linguistic knowledge. After presenting some forgotten Dutch linguistic fieldworkers who operated overseas, and after examining the fate of their works in Europe, we will examine in a second part the degree to which Europe-based scholars actively solicited VOC-actors to pass on information about the world’s languages
Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
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Protestant Pioneers in Sanskrit Studies in the Early 18th Century: An overlooked chapter in South Indian missionary linguistics
Sanskrit has played a notable role in the history of the language sciences. Its intensive study at the turn of the 19th century went hand in hand with the institutionalization of linguistics as an independent academic discipline. This paper endeavours to trace the earliest Sanskrit studies conducted by Protestant missionaries in Tranquebar (present-day Tharangambadi in Tamil Nadu) under the auspices of theDänisch-Hallesche Missionfrom 1706 onward…
The Role of Vernacular Proverbs in Latin Language Acquisition, c. 1200–1600: An exploratory study
This paper examines the continuities and discontinuities in language teaching between the Middle Ages and the early modern era by drawing attention to the role of bilingual Latin-vernacular proverb collections in premodern education, a subject that has hitherto been neglected in the historiography of linguistics. The focus is on bilingual collections that are of Dutch origin. The paper aims to show that there was an active culture of teaching Lat…
Differing only in dialect', or How collocations can co-shape concepts
The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries 1
1 The alleged Persian-Germanic connection: A remarkable chapter in the study of Persian from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries1 was published in Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics on page 1
Imprimeurs et libraires de la Renaissance. Le travail de la langue: Sprachpolitik der Drucker, Verleger und Buchhändler der Renaissance
Traditions, innovations, and connections in writing the history of linguistics
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How to Deal with Scholarly Forgetting in the History of the Humanities: Starting Points for Discussion
This contribution serves to start a more thoroughgoing discussion about the phenomenon of scholarly forgetting within the humanities beyond disciplinary boundaries. How can one explain the fact that knowledge, at some point circulating in the scholarship, eventually sinks into oblivion and, in some cases, even escapes the attention of the historian of scholarship? The essay argues that each instance of scholarly forgetting should be understood ag…
A Precursor and Successor to William Jones: Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn’s Contribution to the Scythian Theory and Comparative Linguistics
In an increasing number of general introductions to historical linguistics, Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn, a seventeenth-century Leiden scholar, is taking William Jones’ place as ‘founding father’ of comparative linguistics. This article focuses on Boxhorn’s investigations into and explanations for the similarities between several European languages and a number of Asian languages, currently known as the Scythian theory. After providing a chronological …
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
status: Published
Un spécimen qui parle de lui-même: Les fonctions des collections multilingues du Notre Père au XVIe siècle
Cet article explore l’intérêt des érudits de la Renaissance pour les traductions multilingues de l’oraison dominicale pendant le « long seizième siècle », en examinant les diverses approches adoptées. Durant cette période, de nombreux humanistes ont, en effet, initié des recueils de versions traduites de l’oraison dominicale à des fins diverses. Le rôle didactique est une caractéristique notable des premières publications polyglottes, visant à en…
Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain
This paper explores the reception of classical works in Early Modern Britain during the hand press era, between the 1470s and 1790s. It investigates canon formation, knowledge transmission, and the integration of digital archives in quantitative book history. The study quantitatively maps changing perceptions of the classical canon across time, offering a panoramic view of 'shifting canons'. The analysis is based on three data archives: the Engli…
Linguistics ante litteram in the Learned Journals of the Enlightenment
This article examines the role of eighteenth-century learned journals in centralizing and structuring scholarly disciplines, with a focus on linguistics ante litteram. It considers whether these publications shaped the formation of distinct scholarly fields. The study offers an overview of early modern journal research, focusing on corpus-based methods, before embarking on a comprehensive approach to early modern journals through a number of case…
Ninety new Greek proverbs of Hermodorus Rhegius: Edition and textual history
In the early seventeenth century, the Greek Jesuit Hermodorus Rhegius (1579–1655) compiled a collection of Greek proverbs which constitutes important evidence for early modern Greek language and culture. Little is known about Hermodorus aside from his pastoral and educational work across the Aegean islands, primarily on Chios. For over two centuries, his proverbs were known mainly through the work of Charles Du Cange, who cited twenty-seven of th…
Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (18 works) · Art (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · History (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Classical Studies and Philology (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Classics (5 works)