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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMarjolijn Bol is researcher in the department of art history at Utrecht University and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In 2014 she was awarded a postdoctoral research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for her project “Art and Deception: Functions, Techniques and Effects of Material Mimesis” (2014–18). Her research focuses on the interdependence of the history of art and the history of materials, techniques, and science.Marco Cardinali is an art historian and expert in scientific analyses and multispectral imaging on works of art. He is visiting professor of technical art history at the University of Stockholm and UNAM Mexico City. He has been a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2015 and professor of physics applied to cultural heritage (2002–10, Università di Roma, La Sapienza). He acted as author and curator of several technical studies on artworks, mainly dealing with the seventeenth century. Recently he was co-curator of Caravaggio: Works in Rome. Technique and Style (Silvana editoriale, 2016), for which he collected technical analysis and data on twenty-two paintings by Caravaggio.Kees Dekker is senior lecturer in Older English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research interests include the historiography of Old Germanic and Old English scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Maria Pia Donato is currently CNRS senior research fellow at the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine in Paris. Her research focuses on cultural history, the history of science and medicine, and the history of European scholarship. Her latest publications include Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in 18th-Century Rome (Ashgate, 2014) and “Voyages, voyageurs et mutations des savoirs entre Révolution et Empire” (Annales historiques de la Révolution française 385 [2016]: 3–21). She is preparing a book on archives in Napoleonic Europe and a collection of essays on imperial archives, 1500–1800.Theodor Dunkelgrün is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, and research associate of St. John’s College, Cambridge. His work focuses on the study and edition of the Hebrew Bible, 1500–1900. Recent publications include “The Humanist Discovery of Hebrew Epistolography,” in Jewish Books and Their Readers: Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe, ed. Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg (Brill, 2016).Sven Dupré is professor of history of art, science and technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is principal investigator of the ARTECHNE project (“Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500–1950”), supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Previously he was professor of history of knowledge at the Freie Universität Berlin and director of the research group “Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.Andreas Erb studied philosophy, German studies, and history at the University of Mannheim. After training as an archivist in Dresden and Marburg in 2000, he became vice department head at the Bergarchiv Freiberg and then at the Saxon State Archive in Chemnitz. Since 2008, he has worked as department head at the Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt. His inquiries concern the history of scholarly societies and the territory of Anhalt.Robert Flierman received his PhD from Utrecht University in 2015. He is currently assistant professor in medieval history at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests include barbarian identity and early medieval historiography. His first book, Saxon Identities, 150–900 AD, will appear in the spring of 2017.Markus Friedrich is professor of early modern European history at the University of Hamburg (since 2013). His major research interests include the history of archives, the history of historiography, and the history of Christianity in early modern Europe.Anthony Grafton studied history, classics, and history of science at the University of Chicago and University College London. Since 1975 he has taught European history at Princeton University. His books include Joseph Scaliger (Oxford, 1983–93), Defenders of the Text (Harvard, 1991), The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard, 1997), and (with Joanna Weinberg) “I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and A Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Harvard, 2011).Marieke Hendriksen is a historian of art and science and a postdoctoral fellow with the ARTECHNE project, Utrecht University. Her research focus is the intersection of material culture and the history of ideas in medicine, chemistry, and art in the long eighteenth century. Previously, she worked at the universities of Leiden and Groningen and was awarded grants by, among others, the National Maritime Museum London, the MPIWG Berlin, the Wellcome Trust, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. For more information, see www.mariekehendriksen.nl.John Shannon Hendrix has taught at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island since 1999. He has also worked as professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Lincoln (UK), and John Cabot University in Rome. He is the author of ten books and has coedited six. Recent books include Architecture and the Unconscious (Routledge, 2016), Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture (Routledge, 2013), and The Cultural Role of Architecture (Routledge, 2012).Sjoerd van Hoorn studied philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen and held an adjunct position in Philosophy of Science and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, from 2006 until 2011. He has published academically on Johan Huizinga’s Homo ludens. His interests include the history of literary studies, political philosophy, St. Augustine, and French and German literature.‪Philipp Müller is assistant professor in the history department of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Previously, he worked as lecturer in modern German history at University College London. His current research focuses on the entwined histories of the changing materiality of archives and the study of the past in the long nineteenth century.Henk Nellen was a staff member of the Huygens Institute (Amsterdam) from 1980 until his retirement in 2014. He coedited the last five volumes of the correspondence of Hugo Grotius (17 vols., The Hague, 1928–2001). In addition, he conducted research on other topics of the seventeenth-century scholarly world. In 2007 he completed a biography of Hugo Grotius (Balans, 2007; English translation Brill, 2014). From 2010 to 2014 he also held the chair of History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period at Erasmus University Rotterdam.Ulrich Päßler studied modern history and political sciences at the Universities of Tübingen, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Massachusetts (Amherst) and received his PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2009. He worked as research assistant at Humboldt-University, Berlin and is currently employed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research interests include nineteenth-century history of science, in particular Alexander von Humboldt, and Anglo-German intellectual relations during the Victorian era. He edited Humboldt’s correspondence with Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (2015, with Thomas Schmuck) and Johann David Erdmann Preuß (2015, with Anna Senft).Stephanie Pearson works in Berlin at the Humboldt-Universität (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Klassische Archäologie), New York University Berlin (faculty), and the Antikensammlung (translator and guide). She received her PhD in history of art at U.C. Berkeley with a dissertation on Egyptian motifs and luxury goods in ancient Roman wall painting. Cross-cultural interaction, artistic technique, and effectively communicating through museum display stand at the center of her research. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute.Anna Pytlowany is a researcher associated with the Revitalising Older Linguistic Documentation group at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently completing a PhD thesis on the first grammar of Hindustani (Ketelaar 1698). Her interests are the history of linguistics related to the Dutch East India Company (on which she published, with Toon van Hal, in Histoire Épistémologie Langage 38, no. 1 [2016]), the material aspects of manuscripts, and digital scholarly editing.Michael Riordan is the archivist of both St. John’s College and Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He has published on the history of record keeping in early modern and modern Britain and on nineteenth-century English historiography.Floris Solleveld is a PhD student at Radboud University Nijmegen and guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam, currently finishing his dissertation “The Transformation of the Humanities: Ideals and Practices of Scholarship between Enlightenment and Romanticism.” In 2016, he was guest researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA), Halle and Research Centre Gotha, University of Erfurt.Marco Tomaszewski is research associate in the history department at the university of Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Valencia and received a PhD from the university of Freiburg im Breisgau in 2013. His doctoral dissertation on sixteenth-century family books as media of urban communication will be published as Familienbücher als Medien städtischer Kommunikation. Untersuchungen zur Basler Geschichtsschreibung im 16. Jahrhundert (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).Jetze Touber is a postdoctoral research assistant in the history department at Ghent University. His research interests concern the history of knowledge at the interface of science, scholarship, and religion. His PhD research on the sixteenth-century priest Antonio Gallonio (1556–1605) has been published as Law, Medicine, and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome (Brill, 2014). His monograph Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic 1660–1710 is due to appear with Oxford University Press.Frank Vonk (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem and Nijmegen) studied Germanic languages and literature in Utrecht and philosophy in Utrecht and Nijmegen. His PhD thesis was on the language axiomatics of Karl Bühler, and he publishes regularly on topics related to the historiography of linguistics and language philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His recent publications discuss Sigwart, Delbrück, Bühler, and Pos, highlighting an interdisciplinary approach in language theory and the philosophy, psychology, and sociology of language.Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann is director of the music department at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt am Main). There she has initiated a long-term research project on the history of musicology in the German-speaking areas (ca. 1810–1990), which will feature a database as well as a book series.Mario Wimmer teaches the history of the modern humanities and social sciences in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Archivkörper: Eine Geschichte historischer Einbildungskraft (Paderborn: Konstanz University Press, 2012) and articles on the history of intellectual practice, most recently “On Sources: Mythical and Historical Thinking in Fin de Siècle Vienna,” Res: Journal for Anthropology and Aesthetics (2014): 108–24; and “The Present as Future Past: Anonymous History of Historical Times,” Storia della Storiografia 68 (2015): 165–83. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Humanities Volume 2, Number 1Spring 2017 Sponsored by the Society for the History of the Humanities Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/690597 © 2017 by The Society for the History of the Humanities. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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