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1. Photograph of Nicolaas van Wijk surrounded by students, ca. 1939. [Private collection]

This picture was taken in the backyard of professor of Balto-Slavic languages Nicolaas van Wijk, Nieuwstraat 36, Leiden. Third from the left is Wils Huisman (1914-1979), who from 1941 on, when her translation of PuSkin’s Kapitanskaja docka appeared, translated many classics of Russian literature into Dutch and who just after the war was appointed the first Slavic librarian at Leiden University Library. Third from the right is the Dutch language specialist P.C. Paardekooper (1920); second from the right is Klaas Hanzen Heeroma (1909-1972); and first on the right is C.H. van Schooneveld. Paardekooper en Van Schooneveld together composed the bibliography of Van Wijk (‘Schriftenverzeichnis von N. van Wijk’, Zeitschrift fur slavische Philologie 18 (1942), p. 124-161). Heeroma, under the pseudonym Muus Jacobse, wrote a poem on account of Van Wijk’s funeral at the Rhijnhof cemetery in Leiden (see Jan Paul Hinrichs, ‘Muus Jacobse, Nicolaas van Wijk en ‘de dode vriend”, Het Oog in ‘tZeil 6 (1988), No. 2, p. 20- 21; Petra Couvée, ‘Graf van N. van Wijk’, Het Oog in 't Zeil 7 (1990), No. 2/3, p. 96).