{{short description|Dutch linguist (1863–1929)}} {{unreferenced|date=October 2012}} {{expand Swedish|topic=bio|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = R. C. Boer | honorific_suffix = | image = R.C.Boer.jpg | image_size = | alt = A middle-aged balding man in a black cassock wearing a pince-nez | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1863|1|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Warnsveld, Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|1929|8|20|1863|1|31|df=y}} | death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | occupation = Linguist, philologist, literature professor | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | education = | alma_mater = University of Groningen | thesis_title = Ǫrvar-Odds Saga | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89098285398 | thesis_year = 1888 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = | era = | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces = | doctoral_students = Nicolaas van Wijk | notable_students = | main_interests = Old Norse | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Richard Constant Boer''' (31 January 1863 – 20 August 1929) was a Dutch linguist who specialized in Old Norse.
==Academic history== Boer received his Ph.D. in 1888 from the University of Groningen for his edition of Örvar-Odds saga. From 1888 to 1900, he taught Dutch and geography at the gymnasium in Leeuwarden. He was also a professor of Old Norse at Groningen from 1894 to 1900, and after 1900, professor of Old Germanic and Sanskrit at the University of Amsterdam.
In 1921, the study of Scandinavian languages was officially established at the University of Amsterdam. R.C. Boer maintained his focus on Old Norse and Old Norse literature, and in the 1920s, his teaching extended to the modern Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and their literature.
==Publications== * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89098285398 Örvar-Odds Saga] (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1888) * [https://archive.org/details/bjarnarsagahtdl00boergoog Bjarnar saga Hítdoelakappa] (Halle A.S.: M. Niemeyer. 1893) * [https://books.google.com/books/about/%C3%8Dvens_saga.html?id=xUMRAQAAMAAJ Ívens saga (Chrétien de Troyes)] (Halle A.S.: M. Niemeyer. 1898) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=T-UOAAAAQAAJ Grettis Saga Asmundarsonar] (Halle A.S.: M. Niemeyer. 1900) * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101171791 Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Nibelungensage] (3 vols.; Halle A.S. Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses. 1906, 1907, 1909) * De Liederen van Hildebrand en Hadubrand (Johannes Müller. 1909) * [https://archive.org/details/diesagenvonerman00boeruoft Die Sagen von Ermanarich und Dietrich von Bern] (Halle a.d.S.: Buchhandlung des Weisenhauses. 1910) * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101050272713 Methodologische Bemerkunger über die Untersuchung der Heldensage: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Andreas Heusler] (Amsterdam: Johannes Müller. 1911) * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.39000003375065 Die Altenglische Heldendichtung: Béowulf] (Halle a.d.S.: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses. 1912) * [https://archive.org/details/studinoverdemetr00boer Studiën over de Metriek van het Alliteratievers] (Amsterdam: Johannes Müller. 1916) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=9bNEAAAAIAAJ Korte Deensche Spraakkunst] (Haarlem: H.D.T. Willink & Zoon. 1918) * Syncope en Consonantengeminatie: Studiën over Oudnoorsche Spraakleer (Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde 37. E.J. Brill. 1918. pp. 161–222) * [https://archive.org/details/oudnoorschhandbo00boer Oudnoorsch Handboek] (Haarlem: H.D.T. Willink & Zoon. 1920) * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101062744956 Die Edda: Einleitung und Text] (Haarlem: H.D.T. Willink & Zoon. 1922) * [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101062744964 Die Edda mit Historisch-Kritischem Commentar] (Haarlem: H.D.T. Willink & Zoon. 1922) * [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=13591 Noorwegens Letterkunde in de Negentiende Eeuw] (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn. 1922) * Oergermaansch Handboek (Haarlem: H.D.T. Willink & Zoon. 1924)
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=5144| name=Richard Constant Boer}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Richard Constant Boer}}
{{Authority control}}{{Netherlands-linguist-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Boer, Richard Constant}} Category:1863 births Category:1929 deaths Category:Germanic studies scholars Category:Academic staff of the University of Groningen Category:Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Category:Linguists from the Netherlands Category:People from Warnsveld Category:Old Norse studies scholars