Dirk Van Miert
Dep. History and Art History - Cultural History
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Dirk van Miert is a university lecturer of early modern culture history, and focuses on the history of knowledge. From 2018 he will lead a research project on the Republic of the Letters. As a researcher, he is currently connected to the NWO project "Thinking Classified. Structuring the World of Ideas around 1800" and examines the way in which the history of science was written in the 18th century. Profile: The intellectual history of (early) modern Europe, especially knowledge history, learning networks, letter culture, bible criticism, university history, history of (classical) philology, humanism, German idealism, gender, confessionalization, and the long history of the republic der Letteren (Respublica literaria / literarum).
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities
Publications
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van Miert, DKW (01-12-2016). A Conceptual Approach to Library History: Towards a History of Open Science . Quaerendo , 46 (3/4), (pp. 205-221) (17 p.).
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van Miert, DKW (2017). Claudius Salmasius and the "Hairy War" (1640-50): historicizing the Bible in the Dutch Republic on the eve of Spinoza [ACCEPTED]. Sixteenth Century Journal
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van Miert, DKW (2017). Making the States' Translation (1637): Orthodox Calvinist Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Republic [ACCEPTED]. Harvard Theological Review , 110.
