Dirk Van Miert
Department of History and Art History - Cultural History
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Dirk van Miert is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Cultural History and specializes in the history of knowledge. From 2018, he will supervise a large research project about the Republic of Letters. He is a research fellow in the NWO-funded project "Thinking Classified. Structuring the World of Ideas around 1800", for which he studies the way in which in the 18th c. the historiography of knowledge took shape.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Publications
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van Miert, D.K.W. (2017). Making the States’ Translation (1637): Orthodox Calvinist Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Republic [ACCEPTED]. Harvard Theological Review, 110.
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[with Henk Nellen, Piet Steenbakkers and Jetze Touber, eds], God's Word Questioned. Biblical Criticism and Scriptural Authority in the Dutch Golden Age, Oxford (OUP) 2017 [forthcoming].
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The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670, Oxford (OUP) 2017 [forthcoming].
