Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction / Ton van Kalmthout and Huib Zuidervaart -- 2. The Importance of the History of Philology, or the Unprecedented Impact of the Study of Texts / Rens Bod -- 3. 'Dutch Language and Literature' (and other 'national philologies') as an example of discipline formation in the humanities / Gert-Jan Johannes -- 4. Between academic discipline and societal relevance: Professionalizing foreign language education in the Netherlands, 1881-1921 / Marie-Christine Kok Escalle -- 5. Fruin's Aristocracy: Historiographical Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century / Jo Tollebeek -- 6. Biblical Philology and Theology / Johannes Magliano-Tromp -- 7. Linguistics as a profession: Diverging opinions in the nineteenth century / Jan Noordegraaf -- 8. 'Remember Dousa!' : Literary historicism and scholarly traditions in Dutch philology before 1860 / Jan Rock -- 9. Beam of a many-coloured spectrum: Comparative literature in the second half of the nineteenth century / Ton van Kalmthout -- 10. Trifles for 'Unflemings' : Teaching Dutch literary history in nineteenth-century Wallonia / Kris Steyaert -- 11. The Relations of Jacob Grimm with the 'Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten' : Old and new documents for the history of the humanities / Rita M. Schlusemann -- Acknowledgements -- Index.