ODÉ, Arend Willem Mauritz. Schiedam 3.6.1887 — Delft 14.8.1951. Dutch IE Linguist. Son of bookseller Gerrit Odé (1835–1907) and Sophia Cornelia van der Pauwert (1844–1898), educated in Schiedam. From 1904 studies at Leiden, i.al. under Uhlenbeck. Ph.D. (?) 1912 Leiden (diss. on Celtic verbs). Further studies at Copenhagen (Pedersen). In 1914-16 military service. From 1917 teacher of Dutch and geography at Grotius Gymnasium in Delft, 1930 its Conrector. Second (?) Ph.D. 1924 Leiden. In his diss. he used recent material from Tocharian, Hittite and Phrygian. After 1927 published nothing, but closely followed the progress of IE studies. Married 1916 Augusta Frederika Carolina Timmer (1887–1980), two sons and one daughter.
Publications: Diss. De uitgangen met r van het deponens en het passivum in de Indoeuropeesche talen. 5+85 p. Haarlem 1924.
– “Das schwache Präteritum in den Germanischen Sprachen”, Mededelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde A 61:6. 1926, 45 p.; “Reflexe von ‘Tabu’ und ‘Noa’ in den Indogermanischen Sprachen”, Ibid. A 63:3. 1927, 28 p..
Sources: H.E. Buiskool, Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde 1950-51, 163-166; F.B.J. Kuiper, Lingua 3, 1953, 230-232; parents in gw.geneanet.org.
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