Please join us for a lecture by Anthony Grafton, sponsored by the RBML and the Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor of the History, Language and Literature of the Dutch Speaking People.
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taught since 1975. His special interests lie in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. He is the author of ten books and the coauthor, editor, coeditor, or translator of nine others. On this occasion Professor Grafton will speak about the intellectual culture of Dutch humanism in the early modern period, focusing on the University of Leiden.
This talk is organized by the Program Studies in the Dutch Language and the Dutch-Speaking World at Columbia, in collaboration with the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Holland Society of New York, to give new exposure to the collection of early Dutch books from the library of the Holland Society of New York, on deposit in the collections of Columbia University since 1901.
