Within the general framework of the relation between philology and foreign language education, this article analyses the connection between German as a school subject and Germanic Studies at Dutch universities beginning in 1881, when the first Dutch chair in German was established at the University of Groningen.

This essay surveys the linguistic publications of J.J.A.A. Frantzen in Dutch periodicals. Frantzen (1853-1923) was the first Germanic scholar with a chair at the University of Utrecht, appointed in 1908. Central are the Umlaut and the Konjunktiv as phenomena of the historically oriented German grammar

This contribution gives an idea of the position of foreign languages at the University of Utrecht in the nineteenth century, when chairs in these languages and literatures were yet to be established