About Anna Maria van Schurman

Anna Maria van Schurman was a highly educated woman by seventeenth century standards and she was born on November 5th, 1607 and died between May 4/May 14, 1678. She was a German-Dutch painter, engraver, poet and scholar. She excelled in art, music, and literature, and became proficient in 14 … [Read More...]

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Publications

The publication list of books by Anna Maria van Schurman, and especially about her,  is enormous. In the following I give an exhaustive, but selective pile of important and fascinating publications based on the principle of ad fontes, first the publications by me, followed by others. See also the bibliography in Pieta van Beek, The … [Read More...]

Events related to Anna Maria van Schurman

Events

Pieta van Beek is the organizing force behind several events which take place in and outside Europe. She gives readings and presentations all over the world about the person Anna Maria van Schurman and her work. On this webpage you can find the events that took place in the past,and the events that will happen now and in the … [Read More...]

Pieta van Beek, scholar, speaker and writer

About me

After having convinced her parents that a girl should be allowed to study, Pieta van Beek (Rotterdam 1958) studied Dutch linguistics and literature at the University of Utrecht (Drs.Litt. 1987), followed by Classical Languages (D.Litt. 1997) and Ancient Near Eastern Languages (MA cum laude 2004) at the University of Stellenbosch … [Read More...]