![]() vilāsa - shining, sudden appearance, playing and pursuing an occupation līlayati - light, frivolous insignificant sides of playing Chinese Sanskrit krīdati - denoting the play of animals, children, adults divyati - gambling, dicing, joking, jesting. Παιδιά - pertaining to children's games ἄθυρμα - associated with the idea of the trifling, the nugatory ἀγών - for matches and contests Huizinga attempts to classify the words used for play He believed that games preceded culture, that animals instinctively know how to play and that playing leads to culture. His knowledge of languages led him to examine the role of playing, of games, in the formation of culture. Huizinga founded a whole field of study, cultural research. His body lies in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest. From then until his death in 1945 he was locked up by the Nazi regime. He opposed Fascism in the 1930s and in 1942 spoke critically of the Nazi occupiers. In 1915, he was appointed Professor of General History at Leiden University, a post he held until 1942, when the Nazis removed him. ![]() He became Professor of General and Dutch History at Gröningen in 1905. In 1902 he started writing about medieval and Renaissance history, with his first writing a biography of Erasmus. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of the jester in Indian drama in 1897. He then studied comparative linguistics, learning Sanskrit in the process. ![]() He was a student of Indo-Germanic languages, graduating in 1895. Johan was the son of Gröningen Physiology Professor Dirk Huizinga and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after Johan was born.
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