Description
Koen Scholten is a PhD candidate in the SKILLNET project. He obtained a BSc in Applied Physics from Delft University and a MSc in History and Philosophy of Science from Utrecht University. His research project focuses on how scientific and scholarly identities were collectively defined and redefined, and which ideals of knowledge they stood for. To be able to research between a large timespan of 400 years (1400-1800) methods from the digital humanities are essential. Tex-mining early modern correspondences, manuscripts, and other manifestations of memory will point out if certain memories (e.g. Erasmus as an exemplary figure in the Republic of Letters) are shared in particular groups, places, disciplines, or languages, thus showing how, where, and when the identification with the ideal of sharing knowledge was transmitted through the networks of the Republic of Letters.