- See Jan de Vries (disambiguation) for other people with the same name.
Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (born February 11, 1890 in Amsterdam — died July 23, 1964 in Utrecht) was a Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, ordinarius 1926 to 1945 at Leiden University. He was more than sympathetic to the Nazi movement, even with the invasion of the Netherlands, but his works seem to have been free from National Socialist ideology. De Vries remains one of the most respected figures in Germanic Philology, and his two-volume Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, though now a half-century old, remains an invaluable work on Germanic Religion.
Bibliography
selected publications
- Studiën over Færösche Balladen, diss. Amsterdam, 1915, 286 ; Rother, Heidelberg, 1922
- De Wikingen in de lage landen bij de zee, Haarlem, 1923
- Henrik Ibsen, Zes Voordrachten, Maastricht, 1924
- De Germaansche Oudheid, Haarlem, 1930
- Contributions to the study of Othin especially in his relation to agricultural practices in modern popular lore, FFC 94, Helsinki, 1931
- The problem of Loki, FFC 110, Helsinki, 193
- Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte I, (Grundriß der german. Philol. 12,1), Berlin-Leipzig, 1935 (2nd ed. 1956);
- Wulfilae Codices Ambrosiani Rescripti, Epistularum Evangelicarum Textum Goticum Exhibentes, Phototypice editi et prooemio instructi a Jano de Vries, Bibliothecae Ambrosianae Codices quam simillime expressi, Turin (3 vols.), 1936
- Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte II, (Grundriß der german. Philol. 12,2), Berlin-Leipzig, 1937 (2nd ed. 1957)
- Edda, vertaald en van inleidingen voorzien, Amsterdam, 1938
- De Germanen, Neubearb. von »De Germaansche Oudheid« 1930, Haarlem, 1941;
- De Wetenschap der Volkskunde, (Hoekstenen onzer Volkskultuur 1), Amsterdam, 1941
- Altnordische Literaturgeschichte I, (Grundriß der german. Philol. 15), Berlin-Leipzig, 1941 (2nd ed. 1964)
- Altnordische Literaturgeschichte II (Grundriß der german. Philol. 16), Berlin, 1942 (2nd revised ed. 1967)
- Edda, vertaald en van inleidingen voorzien. 2nd revised ed., Amsterdam, 1942, (3rd ed. 1943, 4th ed. 1944, 5th ed. 1952, 6th ed. 1978, 7th ed. 1980, 8th ed. 1988);
- Die geistige Welt der Germanen, Halle a.d. Saale, 1943 (2nd ed. 1945, 3rd ed. Darmstadt 1964)
- De Goden der Germanen, Amsterdam, 1944;
- Het Nibelungenlied, I Sigfried, de held van Nederland, II Kriemhilds wraak, vertaald en ingeleid door Dr Jan de Vries, Antwerpen, 1954
- Etymologisch Woordenboek. Waar komen onze woorden en plaatsnamen vandaan?, Utrecht-Antwerpen, 1958, revised 2nd ed. 1959
- Heldenlied en heldensage, Utrecht-Antwerpen, 1959; translated as Heroic Song and Heroic Legend, Oxford 1963;
- Kelten und Germanen, (Bibliotheca Germanica 9), Bern, 1960
- Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Leiden, 1961 (2nd ed. 1963)
- Keltische Religion, (Die Religionen der Menschheit 18), Stuttgart, 1961
- Godsdienstgeschiedenis in vogelvlucht, Utrecht-Antwerpen, 1961
- Forschungsgeschichte der Mythologie, (Orbis Academicus I, 7), Freiburg , 1961
- Woordenboek der Noorden Zuidnederlandse plaatsnamen, Utrecht-Antwerpen, 1962
