RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 van der Meer, TheoYR 2018 T1 Nieuwe geschiedenis JF Nederlandse Taalkunde, VO 23 IS 2 SP 191 OP 222 DO https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2018.2.009.MEER PB Amsterdam University Press, SN 2352-1171, AB Abstract P.J. Meertens’ appointment in 1930 as secretary of the Dialect Committee and head of its bureau has been described as a key step in his unfolding career as a folklorist. Whereas histories of the study of folklore are plentiful, those on the Dialect Committee and its bureau are scant. J. Daan’s history of dialect geography in the Netherlands includes misrepresentations and omissions involving Meertens, van Ginneken and Kloeke, which have been amplified in later publications. For example, van Ginneken’s machinations purportedly thwarted Kloeke’s nomination to direct a Dialect institute. Daan does not mention that the government’s refusal in 1927 and 1928 to fund an institute had required changing the original plans, nor does she mention the role of the medical doctor and experimental phonetician Kaiser, whose status as an exact scientist influenced the government to reverse position, and in 1929 announce funding. Using extensive archival research, and focusing especially on the production of an atlas of dialects in the Northern and Southern Netherlands, this article describes the history of the Dialect Committee from its early initiatives in 1926 until 1948 when the committees for dialects, folklore and onomastics formed a Central Committee., UL https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NEDTAA2018.2.009.MEER