Kornelis ter Laan (

Gronings Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Fris ...

: ''Knelis ter Loan'') (8 July 1871 – 6 March 1963), also referred to as Kees ter Laan and Klaas ter Laan, was a Dutch politician and linguist. He published as K. ter Laan.

Biography

Ter Laan was born on 8 July 1871 in

Slochteren Slochteren () is a village and former municipality with a population of 15,546 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. On 1 January 2018, Slochteren merged with Hoogezand-Sappemeer and Menterwolde, forming the municipalit ...

as the son of Remco ter Laan and his wife Metje Buurman. Jan ter Laan was his younger brother. His father used to be a day laborer, but had managed to get his own farm. Their income was just high enough to pay for his education at the Hogere burgerschool in

Sappemeer Sappemeer () is a town in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Midden-Groningen to the east of Hoogezand. Sappemeer was a separate municipality until 1949, when it merged with Hoogezand. The village is the Europea ...

. After additional lessons, he was able to become teacher at a school in

Noordbroek Noordbroek (Gronings:Noordbrouk) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, about 8 km northeast of Hoogezand. Noordbroek was a separate municipality until 1965, when it became p ...

. At a young age, Ter Laan became interested in

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. He joined the

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, but left when the league chose an anti-parliamentary way. He joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party. In 1901, he was elected member of the

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by the district of

Hoogezand Hoogezand is a town in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, in the province of Groningen in northeast Netherlands. History The name refers to a higher sanded ''(Hooge Sandt)'' place in the peatlands cut through when the Winschoterdiep channe ...

. He would stay member of the House of Representatives until 1937. From 1905 to 1918, he was also a

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and was the first

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of The Hague's

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. He was appointed the first social democrat mayor of

Zaandam Zaandam () is a city in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1811. It is located on the river Za ...

in 1914 by the Cabinet Cort van der Linden. he would remain mayor until 1937. He married Ida Groen on 27 April 1895. They had two sons and a daughter together. Ter Laan died on 6 March 1963 in

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Bibliography

Ter Laan is known for his books about the dialect of

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

. *''De riekdom van de Grunneger toal'' (1924) *''Groninger overleveringen'' (2 delen, 1928, 1930) *''Nederlandse overleveringen'' (2 delen, 1930) *''Nieuw Groninger Woordenboek'' (1929) *''Encyclopedisch woordenboek voor Groot-Nederland'' (1937) *''Groningen voor honderd jaar'' (1937) *''Joodse overleveringen'' (1937) *''Woordenboek van de vaderlandse geschiedenis'' (1939) *''Beknopte Nederlandse Encyclopedie'' (1941, 1947, 1949) *''Letterkundig woordenboek'' (1941) *''Aardrijkskundig woordenboek van Nederland'' (1942, 1948) *''Folkloristisch woordenboek'' (1949) *''Nederlandse spreekwoorden, spreuken en zegswijzen'' (1950) *''Hoezen van Gruindiek '' (1951) *''K. ter Laan's

Multatuli Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel ''Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the a ...

-Encyclopedie'' (ed. Chantal Keijsper, posthumously published in 1995)

References

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