Abstract
The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) is considered to be one of the greatest historians of the 20th century. In the 1930s, he was even more well-known but in a different capacity: not as a cultural historian but as a cultural critic.
As a modern scholar, throughout his life intensively interested in impulses from other humanities, Huizinga was open to methodological approaches emanating from all over Europe. His wide horizon was shaped by his philological-comparative university studies, from which he later turned to history.
The Slovak historian of literature and culture Adam Bžoch published the monograph Man in History: Johan Huizinga and the Humanities (2018), which gives an overall view of Huizing's work and its significance for 20th century humanity thinking.
