Wytze Hellinga

Wytze Gerbens Hellinga (20 December, 1908 Haarlem - 16 March, 1985 London) was a Dutch professor of linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.

Whilst his father adhered to the strict Dutch Reformed Church his mother was a militant socialist and friend of Nienke van Hichtum, who encouraged her in her career.

[1] Hellinga completed his doctorate on the pronunciation of the Dutch language in 1938 at the University of Amsterdam.

[2] He discovered the only known extant copy of Joos Lambrecht's sixteenth century first edition of the Naembouck (1547) in the library of the Groot Seminarie Warmond.

They had co-authored the book The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries published in 1966.