About Anna Maria van Schurman

Anna Maria van Schurman (Cologne, 5 November 1607  - 4 May 1678 Wiewerd) became the first female university student of Europe (Utrecht University, 1636) and the most learned woman of her time. Born in Cologne, she lived most of her life behind the Domcathedral in Utrecht, Holland, where she … [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 organizes several events  and gives lectures in and outside Europe, especially  about the first female  university student Anna Maria van Schurman (1636), her work and (women) networks, but also on South African female writers in Dutch and on the poetry and letters of Ida Gerhardt. On this webpage you can find … [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 (South … [Read More...]