Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm

The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Employment is recorded with Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Positions recorded include full professor. Works named in the authority record are De herdertjes lagen bij nachte. Work by Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm is recorded in the collections of KB, nationale bibliotheek, National Museum Paleis het Loo and Cuypershuis. Distinctions recorded are Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain.

• Name — Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm • Born — 8 July 1820 • Birthplace — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Died — 17 March 1889 • Place of death — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Relatives — Paul Alberdingk Thijm (brother)

He made his entry into the literary world as an art critic in the Spectator in 1842, and immediately attracted attention by his views and his style. The following year he published an essay on the spelling of hybrid words, in which he came out as a philologist. In 1855 he founded the literary magazine Dietsche Warande, which is still in existence under the title DWB. In his poems, he shows that he is a disciple of Willem Bilderdijk. This he himself declares in his celebrated poem "U min ik, Oude met uw stroefgeplooide trekken" (I love you, old one, with your rugged features). As a Catholic writer, "nil nisi per Christum" was his motto. He was influential in the Catholic revival, and the restoration of the hierarchy in the Netherlands. In 1852 Thijm sent a memorial to Rome setting forth the historic reasons for considering Utrecht to be the traditional archiepiscopal see of the Netherlands, and the anxiety of the Catholics at that time that the historic tradition be not broken. Besides the periodical "Dietsche Warande" which he edited from 1855 to 1886, the people's almanac for the Catholics of the Netherlands (1852–89), and numberless brochures in defence of the Church and church history, his most important works are: "Het Voorgeborchte", "Palet en Harp", "Portretten van Joost van den Vondel", "Verspreide Verhalen", "Kerstliederen", "De la Litérature Néerlandaise", "Karolingische Verhalen", "De Heilige Linie". His last efforts were devoted to the preparation of a complete edition of the works of Joost van den Vondel.

Writer Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm was his brother. Alberdingk Thijm was a friend of architect Pierre Cuypers. His writings about Catholic art were a major influence on Cuypers in the first decades of his career. In 1859, Cuypers married Alberdingk Thijm's sister Antoinette.

• There is an Alberdingk Thijm street in Amsterdam, Arnhem, Gendringen, Etten-Leur, Haarlem, 's-Hertogenbosch, Rotterdam, Schiedam, Terneuzen (city), Tilburg, Utrecht, Venlo, Vlijmen and Waalwijk (city). • The Alberdingk Thijm College in Hilversum is named after him.

Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm was recorded at birth as Josephus Albertus Alberdingk. He also worked under the names Pauwels Foreestier and Egbertus Negovagus. The authorities additionally record the headings J.A. Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, Josephus Albrecht Alberdingk Thijm, Joseph Albertus Alberdingk Thijm and Josephus Albertus Alberdingk Thijm. His recorded language was Dutch. He was the child of Joannes Alberdingk and Catharina Thijm. 2 children are recorded: Catharina Louisa Maria Alberdingk Thijm and Lodewijk van Deyssel.

He was employed by Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Recorded position is full professor. He belonged to Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, Met Tijd en Vlijt and Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. He worked at Amsterdam.

Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm is recorded as having received Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain.