Cornelis Henricus Maria "Kees" Versteegh (; born 1947) is a Dutch academic

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. He served as a professor of

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and the

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Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public university, public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistentl ...

in the Netherlands until April 2011. Versteegh graduated from Radboud University in 1977, the subject of his doctoral dissertation having been the influence of

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on Arabic. He was a lecturer in the Department of

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until 1987, when he took a position at the Netherlands Institute in Cairo for two years. Versteegh returned to Radboud in 1989, and in 2011 he became professor

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. Versteegh's research and views on the Arabic language and its evolution have been described as groundbreaking.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Versteegh, Kees Living people Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Dutch religion academics Dutch orientalists Dutch Arabists 1947 births