Education
He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and received his bachelor"s degree on July 17, 1941.
He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and received his bachelor"s degree on July 17, 1941.
Vleeskruijer lived a part of his youth (1924 to 1929) in England. From August 1945 to May 1946 he was an interpreter for the Allied Forces as a conscript NCO in the Dutch Army. After obtaining his master"s degree on June 29, 1948, he took up a study in 1949 at the University of Oxford (Street Catherine College).
To Vleeskruijer was granted the title B.lett.Oxon (Bachelor of Letters Oxoniensis) at this university by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1951.
In 1958 he founded the English Institute of the University of Utrecht. Vleeskruijer was married and had three children.
Hij died aged 50 in Zeist. He was commemorated in 1966 in an article in English Studies, A Journal of English language and Literature.