Biography
Eric Jorink (1963) studied History and Philosophy at the University of Groningen and the Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was laurĂ©at of the Fondation Prix de Paris in 1993. In 2004 he was awarded his doctorate cum laude at the University of Groningen for a thesis on the relation between science and religion in the Dutch Golden Age. The dissertation was awarded with a prize of the prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Since 2001 Jorink has been working as a researcher at the Huygens Institute. Jorink has widely published on the scientific culture in early modern Europe, including the culture of collecting, the relation between art and science, and the emergence of radical biblical criticism.
In 2012-213 he was Andrew W. Mellon visiting professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Here he taught, together with Joanna Woodall, the MA âVisualizing Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlandsâ and was member of the Research Forum. Jorink is currently finishing a biography of Johannes Swammerdam (1637-1680). He is book review editor of Isis. An International Review devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influence, and is member of the editorial board of Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art. In 2013 he was appointed professor extraordinarius at Leiden university, on behalf of Teylers Foundation, âEnlightenment and Religionâ.
Publications
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- contribution to journal (popular)
- contribution to book anthology
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- conference participation
- public engagement