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(unknown charset) RE: Professor at a museum?

From: (unknown charset) Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:49:06 +0200 (MET DST)
To: (unknown charset) Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Sánchez wrote:

> "Mathias Van Guitt... was a former professor of Natural History at the
> Museum of Rotterdam... We believed he appeared comical to his students."
>
> He was a professor indeed (he had students). He teached at the Museum, and
> this is the odd one: they learnt Natural History at museums.

Perhaps he was a lecturer for a general audience, in the style of the
Royal Society and the like...

> By the way, how do you pronunciate Guitt? As in German chu - itt?

It's not a real Dutch name, and it doesn't even look Dutch. Strangely
enough, in the Dutch translation the Museum of Rotterdam is not mentioned
at all, and I had always assumed that Van Guitt was German (despite the
Van instead of Von). So I would pronounce it with a g like in German
'gehen'.

garmt.
Received on Sat 22 Jul 2000 - 19:52:32 IDT

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