What is Hylke Tromp?
[[File:HylkeTromp1974.jpg|right|200px]] '''Hylke Wybe Tromp''' (27 July 1935 &ndash; 14 February 2021) was a Dutch [[War studies|polemologist]].<ref name=obit>[https://www.volkskrant.nl/mensen/hylke-tromp-1935-2021-was-als-polemoloog-een-bn-er-tijdens-de-koude-oorlog~b10fc812/ Hylke Tromp (1935-2021) was als polemoloog een BN’er tijdens de Koude Oorlog] [[De Volkskrant]] 20 februari 2021</ref> He was born in [[Sneek]], [[Netherlands]]. Beginning in the 1960s, he worked at the [[Polemological Institute]]. In 1980, he was appointed professor at the [[University of Groningen]].<ref>[http://www.digibron.nl/search/detail/012e9dfcf5f1ab3957b2da14/hylke-tromp-volgt-prof-r-ling-op Reformatorisch Dagblad, 9 januari 1980]</ref> He was a member of the advisory board of the International Peace Institute (IIP) in Vienna.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160919152539/http://www.iip.at/who/whoadvisory.htm Website IIP]</ref> Tromp died on 14 February 2021 in [[Groningen]], Netherlands at the age of 85.<ref name=obit/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tromp, Hylke}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Dutch academics]] [[Category:Writers from Friesland]] {{bio-stub}}