About the Authors
Wiep van Bunge
is professor of the history of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He writes mainly on early modern intellectual history and his books in English include From Stevin to Spinoza (2001), Spinoza Past and Present (2012), and From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution (2018).
Frank Daudeij
received his master in history at the EHSCC at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Thereafter he started his Ph.D at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently finalising his dissertation on the Political Thought of Romeyn de Hooghe. He is employed as manager at Samsung Electronics Benelux.
Martin Gierl
holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Göttingen. He is a Senior Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of Göttingen. He published Geschichte als präzisierte Wissenschaft. Johann Christoph Gatterer und die Historiographie des 18. Jahrhunderts im ganzen Umfang (2012) and Pietismus und Aufklärung. Theologische Polemik und die Kommunikationsreform der Wissenschaft am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts (1997).
Albert Gootjes
(Ph.D., Calvin Theological Seminary, 2012) is an intellectual historian affiliated with Utrecht University. He has published on Huguenot theology, the Saumur Academy, Dutch Cartesianism, and Spinoza reception history.
Trudelien van ’t Hof
worked as a PhD candidate in the project Faultline 1700: Early Enlightenment conversations on Religion and the State. Her research concerns the way in which changing ideas about religion are presented in the enigmatic book Hieroglyphica by the Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe. Currently, Trudelien works as a secretary to the University Council of Utrecht University.
Jonathan Israel
(D.Phil. Oxon) is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton where he has been based since 2001. His most recent volume is The Expanding Blaze. How the American Revolution ignited the World, 1775–1848.
Henri A. Krop
studied philosophy and theology at Leiden University, where in 1987 he took his Ph.D on Johannes Duns Scotus (1268–1309). At the moment he is senior lecturer history of philosophy and endowed professor Spinoza Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was editor of the Dictionary of 17th and 18th Century Dutch Philosophers (2003) and the Continuum Companion to Spinoza (2011).
Fred van Lieburg
Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1996), professor of religious history at Vrije Universiteit, author of many books, including Dutch Religious History (with Joris van Eijnatten, Brill Publishers, 2019).
Jaap Nieuwstraten
studied at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he received a Ph.D. in History for a dissertation on the Dutch scholar Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn (1612–1653) in 2012. He currently works as a freelance researcher and history teacher at Luzac.
Joke Spaans
Ph.D. (1989, Leiden University), is associate professor for the history of Christianity at Utrecht University. She publishes on early modern Dutch religious history—among other publications Graphic Satire and Religious Change, The Dutch Republic 1676–1707 (Leiden, Brill, 2011).
Jetze Touber
Ph.D. (2009, Groningen University), is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History, Ghent University. He has published on the interrelations between religion, scholarship and science in early modern Europe, including the monograph Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic (1660–1710) (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Arthur Weststeijn
(PhD European University Institute, 2010) is assistant professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (Leiden: Brill, 2012). Together with Wyger Velema, he published the edited volume Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Leiden: Brill, 2017).