Meertens, Piet

Piet Meertens,
natal chart (Placidus)
natal chart English style (Equal houses)
natal chart with Whole Sign houses

Name	Meertens, Piet Gender: M
Birthname	Pieter Jacobus Meertens
born on	6 September 1899 at 10:00 (= 10:00 AM )
Place	Middelburg, Netherlands, 51n30, 3e37
Timezone	LST m4e53 (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Astrodienst
Astrology data	13°33' 27°26 Asc. 00°54'

add Piet Meertens to 'my astro'

Piet Meertens (with C.J.E. Dinaux on the left)
photo: Eric Koch (ANEFO), license cc-by-sa-3.0

Biography

Dutch scholar of literature, dialects and ethnology.

His father Karel Meertens was a grocer, who became an insurance agent when Piet was young. His mother Adriana Jacomina Mak stimulated Piet to study.

He studied Dutch languages and graduated on the literary life in Zeeland in the 16th and 17th centuries, under C.G.N. de Vooys.

Meertens was a progressive Christian, and a member of the small Christian Democratic Union. In the 1920s, when in Utrecht, he was a member of the board of the Dutch Association of Vegetarians. He was sympathetic to the anti-militaristic strain in the Dutch Reformed Church, and visited prisoners as part of a missionary organization. Christian-Socialist friends of his were journalist Henk van Randwijk, preachers Willem Banning and Jan Buskes, and the poet Fedde Schurer. From 1938 on he was active in the Comité van Waakzaamheid, an association of artists and intellectuals inspired by Menno ter Braak which opposed the rise of fascism and nazism.

P.J. Meertens stood model for A.P. Beerta in J. J. Voskuil's novel cycle Het Bureau, which resembles Meertens Institute.

Meertens died 28 October 1985 in Amstelveen.

Link to Wikipedia

Relationships

• associate relationship with Ter Braak, Menno (born 26 January 1902). Notes: anti-fascist activities

• friend relationship with Roland Holst, Henriette (born 24 December 1869)

• friend relationship with Schurer, Fedde (born 25 July 1898)

Events

• Other Family 31 October 1901 in Middelburg (Brother born Cornelis Meertens)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Other Family 2 January 1906 in Middelburg (Brother born: Willem Joost Jan Meertens)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Other Family 13 December 1909 in Middelburg (Sister born: Jacomina Christina Margaretha Meertens)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Death of Sibling 22 January 1914 in Middelburg (stillborn)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Social : End a program of study 23 May 1924 in Utrecht (graduation cum laude)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Social : Joined group 1 July 1930 in Utrecht (Dutch academy of science (KNAW))
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Death of Father 3 January 1943 in Utrecht (Karel Meertens, born 13 April 1868, Middelburg)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 9 July 1943 in Utrecht (Dissertation: Letterkundig leven in Zeeland in de zestiende en de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Death of Mother 29 January 1944 in Utrecht (Adriana Jacomina Mak, born 1 November 1870, Rotterdam)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Death of Sibling 12 May 1945 in Voorburg (Cornelis Meertens)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

• Death, Cause unspecified 28 October 1985 in Amstelveen
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

Source Notes

Svi retrieved BC from Middelburg: 6 September 1899 at 10:00 AM

Meertens, Pieter Jacobus (1899-1985)

Categories

• Traits : Body : Diet unusual (vegetarian)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Ethnologist

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Linguist

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (P.J. Meertens · dbnl)