Description
dr. Dirk van Miert is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Cultural History and specializes in the history of knowledge. He supervises a large research ERC Consolidator project about the Republic of Letters.
Van Miert is editor in chief of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, president of Gewina (Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities) and president of the Dutch Network of Neolatin Studies.
Profile: intellectual history of (early) modern Europa, History of Knowledge, history of science, history of universities, history of education, history of scholarship, history of philology, gender relations in the world of learning, humanism, and the long social history of the Republic of Letters (Respublica litteraria or Respublica litterarum/Republique des Lettres/Gelehrtenrepublik).