Biography
Dirk van Miert graduated in Latin literature and obtained his doctorate in Amsterdam (2004) with a dissertation on the institutional and cultural history of the Athenaeum Illustre, the predecessor of the University of Amsterdam. With Paul Botley he worked at the Warburg Institute in London, where they prepared the critical edition of The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger (2012). As a postdoc at the Huygens Institute he wrote a monograph The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 (2018). He then worked as a researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University, contributing to a project on classifications of knowledge in the time of Immanuel Kant. Since 2016, first as Assistant and later as Associate Professor of Cultural History, he acts as PI of the ERC Consolidator project Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary NETworks (SKILLNET). Van Miert was editor-in-chief of Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, president of Gewina (Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities), and head of the Cultural History section in Utrecht. Currently, he devotes his time to the application of network analysis and text mining in order to understand how early modern scholars in Europe managed create a border-crossing collective identity.
In addition, Dirk van Miert is guest-associate professor at the Cultural History section of the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, as well as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and member of the International Advisory Board of the institute LECTIO of the Catholic University Leuven. He is also PI of the national infrastructure project CLARIAH+ and the Open Access platform Openjournals.nl and co-PI of consortium SSHOC-NL.
Publications
(With Koen Scholten and Karl Enenkel, eds.) Memory and Identity in the Learned World. Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science. Leiden and Boston: Brill, [2022].
(With Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig) “What Was the Republic of Letters?” In Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019, pp. 23-40. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1146
The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1670. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
(With Paul Botley, eds), The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger, 8 vols. Geneva: Droz, 2012.
Humanism in an Age of Science: The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to journal (review)
- contribution to edited volume
- working paper
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- conference participation
- public engagement
- non textual
- other contribution
2018
Miert, D. V. (2018). The “Hairy War” (1640–50): historicizing the bible in the Dutch Republic on the eve of Spinoza. Sixteenth Century Journal, 49(2), 415-436.
2017
Miert, D. V. (2017). Making the States’ Translation (1637): Orthodox Calvinist Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Republic. Harvard Theological Review, 110(3), 440-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816017000177
2014
Nellen, H. J. M. & van Miert, D. K. W. (2014). Media en tolerantie in de Republiek der Letteren. De discussie over Isaac de La Peyrère (ca. 1596-1676) en zijn Prae-Adamitae. De Zeventiende Eeuw, 30(1), 3-19.
2011
van Miert, D. K. W. & Heesakkers, C. L. (2011). An inventory of the correspondence of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). Lias: journal of early modern intellectual culture and its sources, 37(2), 108-268.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). Joseph Scaliger, Claude Saumaise, Isaac Casaubon and the Discovery of the Palatine Anthology (1606). Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 74, 241-261.
2010
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). José Justo Escalígero (1540-1609): los contactos católicos de un erudito calvinista. Revista de Historiografia, 11(2), 87-93.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Language and Communication in the Republic of Letters: the Uses of Latin and French in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 72(1), 7-34.
Nellen, H. J. M. van Miert, D. K. W. & Buhre, I. A. E. (2010). Nieuwsbrief. Nieuwsbrief Neolatinistenverband, (23 (september 2010)).
2017
Miert, D. V. (2017). Review of: Grantley McDonald, Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe. Erasmus, the Johannine Comma, and Trinitarian Debate. Renaissance Quarterly, 70(3), 1065-1067.
2012
van Miert, D. K. W. (2012). [Review of: A Grafton (2011) "I have always loved the Holy Tongue". Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in the History of Scholarship]. Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, 32, 113-114.
2011
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). [Review of: D Thouard (2010) Philologie als Wissensmodell]. Renaissance Quarterly, 64(2), 554-556.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). [Review of: I Huysman (2009) Beatrix en Constantijn. De briefwisseling tussen Beatrix de Cusance en Constantijn Huygens 1652-1662]. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 126(1), 101-102.
2010
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). [Review of: A.T. Grafton (2009) Worlds made by Words. Scholarship and Community in the Modern West]. Renaissance Quarterly, 63(1), 190-191.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). [Review of: V Icke (2009) De ruimte van Christiaan Huygens; V. Icke (2006) Christiaan Huygens in de onvoltooid verleden toekomende tijd]. De Zeventiende Eeuw, 26(2), 218-219.
2023
van Miert, D. & Stolwijk, C. (2023). Woord vooraf. In W. Coppes, & L. Jansen (Eds.), Mondriaan en fotografie: De kunstenaar in beeld Tijdsbeeld Uitgeverij.
2022
van Miert, D. (2022). 1641. Een Syrische christen in Holland. In L. Heerma van Voss, N. Bouras, M. 't Hart, M. van der Heijden, & L. Lucassen (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 221-228). Ambo|Anthos.
2021
van Miert, D. (2021). Onderwijs. In H. Helmers, & G. Janssen (Eds.), De Zeventiende Eeuw (pp. 420-436). Leiden University Press.
2017
Nellen, H. J. M. van Miert, D. Touber, J. & Steenbakkers, P. (2017). Editors' Introduction. In D. V. Miert, H. Nellen, P. Steenbakkers, & J. Touber (Eds.), Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God‘s Word Questioned (pp. 1-15). Oxford University Press.
2015
Miert, D. V. (2015). De Statenvertaling (1637). In P. Gillaerts, H. Bloemen, Y. Desplenter, W. Francois, & A. den Hollander (Eds.), De Bijbel in de Lage Landen: Elf eeuwen van vertalen (pp. 406-444). Royal Jongbloed.
2013
van Miert, D. K. W. (2013). Concluding Observations on Communicating Observations. In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), Communicating observations in early modern letters (pp. 223-247). Warburg Institute.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2013). Introduction. In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), Communicating observations in early modern letters (pp. 1-7). Warburg Institute.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2013). Philology and Empiricism: Observation and Description in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609). In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), Communicating observations in early modern letters (pp. 89-113). Warburg Institute.
2012
Jorink, H. G. M. & van Miert, D. K. W. (2012). Epilogue: Isaac Vossius in Context. In H. G. M. van Jorink, & D. K. W. Miert (Eds.), Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship (Vol. 214, pp. 311-319). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
Jorink, H. G. M. & van Miert, D. K. W. (2012). Introduction. The Challenger: Isaac Vossius and the European World of Learning. In H. G. M. van Jorink, & D. K. W. Miert (Eds.), Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship (Vol. 214, pp. 1-13). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2012). The French Connection: From Casaubon and Scaliger, via Saumaise, to Vossius. In D. K. W. van Miert, & H. M. G. Jorink (Eds.), Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship (Vol. 214, pp. 15-43). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
2011
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). Epilogue: The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius. In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) (Vol. 199, pp. 290-307). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). Hadrianus Junius' Animadversa and his Methods of Scholarship. In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) (Vol. 199, pp. 96-136). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). Introduction: Hadrianus Junius and Northern Dutch Humanism. In D. K. W. van Miert (Ed.), The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) (Vol. 199, pp. 1-15). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2011). The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and the Catholic Correspondents. In HJM. Nellen, & J. De Landtsheer (Eds.), Between Scylla and Charybdis. Learned Letter Writers Navigating the Reefs of Religious and Political Controversy in Early Modern Europe (pp. 367-408). Brill.
2010
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Project Procopius: Scaliger, Vulcanius, Hoeschelius and the Pursuit of Early Byzantine History. In H. Cazes (Ed.), Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks, Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614 (Vol. 194, pp. 361-386). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Scaliger Scatologus. Rhetorical Roots of Obscene and Abusive Language in the Letters of Joseph Scaliger. In Obscenity (Vol. 14, pp. 17-31). (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France). Rookwood Press.
2023
Wiersma, A. & van Miert, D. (2023). Pennenvruchten en miniaturen in de Koninklijke Verzamelingen. Historici.nl. https://www.historici.nl/blog-pennenvruchten-en-miniaturen-in-de-koninklijke-verzamelingen/?type=bijdrage
2012
van Miert, D. K. W. (2012). ‘Scaliger, de wijnkelder van Louise de Colligny, en de koning van Marokko’. Historici.nl.
2017
Miert, D. V. Touber, J. Steenbakkers, P. & Nellen, H. (Eds.) (2017). Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God’s Word Questioned. Oxford University Press.
2013
van Miert, D. K. W. (Ed.) (2013). Communicating observations in early modern letters. Warburg Institute.
2012
Jorink, H. G. M. & van Miert, D. K. W. (Eds.) (2012). Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
2011
van Miert, D. K. W. (Ed.) (2011). The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill.
2022
Dirk van Miert (2022). State of Affairs - interview about CLARIAH. 24-11-2022. (CLARIAH & NDE Annual Conference 2022)
Dirk van Miert (2022). Digital Infrastructures for History in the Netherlands: frameworks and strategies for the future. 08-11-2022. (Building Digital Humanities 2022)
Dirk van Miert (2022). From the "Respublica Literaria" to the "orbis Literatus": enrichting epistolary networks. 05-05-2022. (Epistolografia e cirolazione dei saperi in età moderna)
Dirk van Miert (2022). Openingspraatje. 19-04-2022. (Digitale verhalen over erfgoed en identiteit: We Are All Together (WAAT) )
2021
Dirk van Miert (2021). The 2nd degree Dutch network of Isabelle de Charrière’s correspondence. 01-12-2021. (Digital Humanities at GKG)
Dirk van Miert (2021). Beyond “Ctrl-F”: automating searches in large textual corpora. 29-10-2021. (Webinar Centre for Digital Humanities)
Dirk van Miert (2021). Datafication in Intellectual History: Enriching the Way of Carrying out Research. 21-10-2021. (Digitalizing humanities, humanizing digitalization)
Dirk van Miert (2021). Werkdruk in de periode 1500–1800. 08-10-2021. (Academische werkdruk in historisch perspectief)
Dirk van Miert (2021). Visualizing the Unknown and the Republic of Letters. 01-10-2021. (Kick-off: Visualizing the Unknown)
2013
Dirk van Miert (2013). De kloof tussen alfa en bèta. 13-06-2013. (Lancering Epistolarium, Utrecht)
2012
Dirk van Miert (2012). De geleerdenbiografie: de vroegmoderne ontwikkeling van een genre. 07-12-2012. (De geleerden(auto)biografie als bron in de wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis)
Dirk van Miert (2012). The coming about of the Dutch Standard Version or States Translation. 30-11-2012. (Internional Colloquium Vernacular Bible and Religious Reform, Leuven)
Dirk van Miert (2012). De mogelijkheden van de correspondentie van Joseph Scaliger. 28-09-2012. (masterclass en boekpresentatie, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek)
Dirk van Miert (2012). The Janus Face of Scaliger’s Heritage: Heinsius and Grotius. 31-08-2012. (International Conference God’s Word Questioned: Biblical Criticism and Scriptural Authority, Utrecht)
2011
Dirk van Miert (2011). De Animadversa van Junius. 01-07-2011. (Vijfhonderd Jaar Junius, Hoorn)
Dirk van Miert (2011). Wie was Junius?. 01-07-2011. (Vijfhonderd Jaar Junius, Hoorn)
2010
Dirk van Miert (2010). Selden’s scholarly models: Scaliger & Co.. 26-06-2010. (John Selden: Scholarship in Context, Oxford, Magdalene College)
Dirk van Miert (2010). Daniel Heinsius’ Exercitationes Sacrae. 19-06-2010. (Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1300-1700), Amsterdam, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Dirk van Miert (2010). The Seventeenth-Century Culture of Editing Scholarly Correspondences. 10-06-2010. (Seminar series on Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Oxford, Faculty of History)
2009
Dirk van Miert (2009). Conference The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), Leiden. 06-11-2009. (Conference The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609))
Dirk van Miert (2009). Conference The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), Leiden. 05-11-2009. (Conference The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609))
Dirk van Miert (2009). Language and Communication in the Republic of Letters around 1600. 17-09-2009. (Conference 'Bilingual Europe' (Huygens Institute/UvA), University of Amsterdam)
Dirk van Miert (2009). De filoloog met de hamer. Radicale filologie in de brieven van Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609). 26-05-2009. (studiebijeenkomst, University of Amsterdam)
2023
Dirk van Miert (2023). De Republiek der Letteren in het Koninklijk Huisarchief. 12-05-2023. (Pennenvruchten)
Dirk van Miert (2023). Het epistolaire netwerk van Christiaan Huygens (en Descartes) - een digitale benadering. 14-04-2023. (Verlichte Geesten)
Dirk van Miert (2023). Digitaal en analoog vertaalde Annalen. 24-03-2023. (Boekpresentatie Grotius’ Annales en Lipsius’ Monita)
2022
Dirk van Miert, Ineke Huysman, Ad Leerintveld (2022). Constantijn Huygens’ Briefwisseling in Nederlandse Collecties: Een digitaal netwerkperspectief’. 02-12-2022. (Constantijn Huygens. Een leven in brieven.)
Dirk van Miert (2022). 1572: Hadrianus Junius overhandigt zijn “Geschiedenis van Holland” aan Willem van Oranje. 09-07-2022. (Hoffestival Dordrecht 2022)
Dirk van Miert (2022). Openingspraatje. 13-05-2022. (Presentatie digitale transcriptie van de partikuliere aanteekeningen van Willem de Clercq)
2021
Dirk van Miert (2021). From a siloed correspondence to a beautiful research source: Belle and the Big-data Beast. 23-11-2021. (Belle de Zuylen’s Correspondence Online)
2013
Dirk van Miert (2013). De Harige Oorlog, 1640-1648. 23-04-2013.
2012
van Miert, D. K. W. & Doppen, B. (2012). Brieven van Scaliger net verschenen in boekvorm. Digital or Visual Products
van Miert, D. K. W. & Doppen, B. (2012). Symposium 'Van God Los. Digital or Visual Products
2023
Wiersma, A. Grever, M. van Miert, D. Leemans, I. Brandon, P. & Lucassen, L. (2023, Feb 15). Open Brief: Maak van geschiedenis voor álle leerlingen een eindexamenvak. NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/15/maak-geschiedenis-voor-alle-leerlingen-een-eindexamenvak-a4157219
2012
van Miert, D. K. W. & Botley, P. (2012). The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance). Librairie Droz.
2010
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Four entries. In K. van Ommen, & H. Cazes (Eds.), Facebook in the sixteenth century? : the humanist and networker Bonaventura Vulcanius : catalogue of an exhibition in Leiden University Library (Vol. 83, pp. 108-117). (Kleine publicaties van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek). Leiden University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Heinsius, Daniel. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 788-789). Oxford University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Heinsius, Nicolaus. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 789-789). Oxford University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Letters and Epistolography. In A. Grafton, G. Most, & S. Settis (Eds.), The Classical Tradition (pp. 520-523). Harvard University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Scaliger, Julius Caesar. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 1127-1127). Oxford University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Scriverius, Petrus. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 1141-1141). Oxford University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Vossius, Gerardus Joannes. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 1246-1246). Oxford University Press.
van Miert, D. K. W. (2010). Vossius, Isaac. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 1246-1246). Oxford University Press.