Brouwer, L.S.G.B. (Leendert)
Guest Researcher
E-mail:
leendert.brouwer@meertens.knaw.nl
Telephone:
020 4628 546
Research group
Biography
Leendert Brouwer has been with the Department of ‘Naamkunde’ since 1979. He developed the documentation system ‘Names and Onomastics in the Netherlands and elsewhere’ (NNN). He is also behind the Dutch Family Names Database, which was transferred to the ‘CBG Centre for Family History’ when ‘Naamkunde’ was discontinued at the Meertens Institute in 2012. As an editor, he has written and edited thousands of lemmata for the surname database. He also devotes himself to writing naming articles, focusing mainly on name law and name change.
Key publications
- Brouwer, L. (2023). Family Name Adoption in the Dutch Colonies at the Abolition of Slavery in the Context of National Family Name Legislation: A Reflection on Contemporary Name Change. Genealogy, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7040096
- Brouwer, L., McClure, P., & Gehring, C. (2022). Dutch family names. In P. Hanks, & S. Lenarčič (editors), Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press.
- Brouwer, L. (2021). Van wie is je achternaam? Naamrecht, emancipatie en zingeving. Gen. Tijdschrift voor familiegeschiedenis, 27(2), 64-69.
- Brouwer, L. (2012). Een fiets van Viets. Over de herkomst van een eponiem. Genealogie: tijdschrift voor familiegeschiedenis , 18(2), 16-19. https://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/aanhangsels/fiets.pdf