HELTEN, Willem Lodewijk van. Hedel (Gelderland) 30.8.1849 — ’s-Gravenhage 16.3.1917. Dutch Linguist. Educated in Leiden and Rotterdam. in 1865-71 studies at Leiden (probably learned Sanskrit from Kern). Ph.D. 1871 Leiden (diss. on Dutch). In 1870-82 school-teacher of Dutch in Tiele and Rotterdam. From 1882 Professor of Dutch language and literature and Old Frisian at Groningen, in 1882-89 also taught elementary Sanskrit there. In 1911 emeritus.

Publications: Wrote on Dutch and Frisian, but nothing on Sanskrit.

Sources: Dutch Indology homepage.