Lotte and Wytze Hellinga – IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Jul 20, 2024

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The ‘Lotte and Wytze Hellinga’ Academic Reading Passage is a good resource for anyone who is preparing for the IELTS Reading test. The passage that is present in this blog is similar in difficulty to the passages that you will encounter on the actual IELTS Reading test.

By taking the ‘Lotte and Wytze Hellinga’ IELTS Reading Answer, you can get a feel for the types of questions that you will be asked and the level of difficulty that you can expect.

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Reading Passage

You should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1-15, which are based on the Reading Passage below.

Lotte and Wytze Hellinga

As a student at the University of Amsterdam after the Second World War, Lotte found herself stimulated ﬁrst by the teaching of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey and then by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time Professor of Dutch Philology at the university. Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the idea of situating what he taught in its context. Obliged to teach Gothic, for example, he tried to convey a sense of the language rooted in its own time and environment.
Study of the book was becoming increasingly important at the University of Amsterdam during this period, as the work of de la Fontaine Verwey and Gerrit Willem Ovink testiﬁes. Wytze Hellinga’s interests, formerly largely in a socio-linguistic direction, were now leaning more toward texts and to the book as the medium that carried written texts.
Much of Wytze’s teaching followed his own research interests, as he developed his ideas around the sense that texts should properly be understood in the context of their method of production and dissemination. He was at this time increasingly turning to codicology and to the classic Anglo-Saxon model of bibliography in the realization that the plan to produce a proper critical edition of the works of Pieter Comeliszoon Hooft, the seventeenth-century poet, dramatist, and historian, depended on the application of the skills of analytical bibliography.
Encouraged by his work, Lotte produced an undergraduate thesis on the printer’s copy of the Otia of Constantijn Huygens (The Hague, 1625). This work, incidentally, has never been published, although an article was regularly announced as forthcoming in Quaerendo during the early 1970s.
On graduation in 1958, events took a turn that was to prove fateful. Lotte was awarded a postgraduate fellowship by the Nederlandse Oĩ^anisatie voor Zuiver-Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (or z.w.o.) to go to England to study ﬁfteenth-century printing, and MarieKronenberg, the doyenne of Dutch bibliographers, arranged for her to be “taught in cunabulizing” (as she put it) by Victor Scholderer at the British Museum.
As an honorary Assistant Keeper at the Museum, then, she came to England in 1959, assisting among other things with the preparation of BMC volume IX (concerning the production of Holland and Belgium) while studying the texts of the Gouda printer Gerard Leeuto see if the sources (and hopefully printer’s copy) for his editions could be identiﬁed. Although the subject proved diﬃcult to deﬁne immediately so as to lead in a productive direction, most of this work was nonetheless to ﬁnd its way into print in such collaborative publications as the Hellingas’ Fifteenth-century printing types, the edition of the Bradshawcorrespondence and the 1973 Brussels catalog, to each of which we shall return. But during her time at the Museum, Lotte’s attention was also attracted by such things as English provenances on early-printed continental books, an interest which has stayed with her throughout her career.
Wytze’s attention too was turning towards incunabula at this time, as witnessed by theﬁfteenth-century examples used in his Copy and Print in the Netherlands (1962), and there began a fruitful period of collaborative work which was issued in a stream of short bibliographical articles on Low Countries incunabula, and culminated triumphantly in the ground-breaking Fifteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries, commissioned (at Wytze’s instance) by Menno Hertzberger in 1961 and published in IELTS Reading Tests 1966. These years saw periods of intensive study in the libraries strongest in the incunabula of the Low Countries, with whole summers passed in Cambridge and Copenhagen as well as shorter visits to libraries from Oxford to Vienna.
The partnership between Lotte and Wytze was also to lead to marriage and to the birth of their son. Between 1961 and 1975, the Hellingas were in Amsterdam. In 1965, Lotte obtained a research assistantship for Dutch proto typography from the Z.W.O., and from 1967 she was teaching at the Institute of Dutch Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She continued to develop her interest in analytical bibliography in a number of directions, perhaps most strikingly in important work on early Dutch printing and an examination of the Coster question. She also contributed to the catalog which accompanied the exhibition held in Brussels in 1973 to commemorate the quincentenary of the introduction of printing to the Netherlands, a collaborative work that still provides the best presentation of the work of the early printers of the Low Countries.
The year 1974 saw the award of a doctorate by the University of Amsterdam for her thesis on the relationship between copy and print in a ﬁfteenth-century printing house, Methode enpraktijk bij het zetten van boeken in de vijftiende eeuw. This seminal work, remaining as a Dutch dissertation of limited diffusion, has perhaps not been as widely read as it deserves. There followed a year’s respite from teaching in 1975 with the commission from Enschede, to edit Harry Carter’s translation of Charles Ensched,’s Type Foundries in the Netherlands, at length published in 1978.

Questions 1-8

Reading Passage has 9 paragraphs (A-I).

Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

Write the appropriate numbers (i-xv) in Boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet.

You may use each heading only once.

One of the headings has been done for you as an example.

Paragraph A
Paragraph B
Paragraph C
Paragraph D
Paragraph E
Paragraph F
Paragraph G
Paragraph H

Example: Paragraph i: iii

List of headings

‘The classic Anglo-Saxon model
Lotte to go to England
More recognition deserved
Wytze’s research in Oxford
Wytze’s interest in texts and the book
Lotte unpublished
Lotte to be published ‘
Lotte’s first influences at university
Lotte’s work in England
The development of Wytze’s research
‘Back in Amsterdam
A postgraduate student at university.
A socio-linguistic direction,
Wytze’s interest in incunabula
The birth of a son

Questions 9-14

Do the statements below agree with the information in the Reading Passage?

In boxes 9-14, write:

Yes if the statement agrees with the information in the passage

No if the statement contradicts the information in the passage

Not Given if there is no information about the statement in the passage

Lotte studied at the University of Amsterdam after the Second World War.
Prior to his interest in the book, Wytze’s interest was mainly in socio-linguistics.
According to Wytze Helinga, the production and dissemination of books were not really matters of importance.
When Lotte moved to England, she found it diﬃcult to settle in initially.
Lotte lived and worked in Amsterdam during part of the 60s and 70s.
Lotte’s post-graduate thesis was widely disseminated.

Question 15

Choose the appropriate letter A-D and write it in box 15 on your answer sheet.

15.

The passage is an extract from a much larger text.

What type of text is it?

a biography
a newspaper editorial
a bibliography
aưavelogue