Theodorus Johannes Maria "Theo" van Els (14 May 1936 – 4 August 2015)Family notices in ''

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'', 6 August 2015. was a Dutch academic who served as Rector magnificus of the Radboud University Nijmegen between 1994 and 2000. He was a professor of

applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

. Van Els was born in 1936 in

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, he obtained a degree in English language and literature at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1961. In 1972, he obtained a PhD at the same university with a dissertation on an 8th-century manuscript of

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names. In 1979, he became lecturer and two years later professor of applied linguistics.

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1936 births 2015 deaths Applied linguists Linguists from the Netherlands People from Venray Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Rectors of universities in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-linguist-stub