Research group Data Management
Specialisation Correspondence of Constantijn Huygens
Contact ineke.huysman@huygens.knaw.nl
+31 (0)20-2246831

Biography

Ineke Huysman gained her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam with a biography of Béatrix de Cusance, Duchess of Lorraine (1614–1663). At Huygens Institute, she has worked on the edition of “Minutes of the States of Holland (1620–1640)”, and since 1989, has been active in the field of electronic source access and automation. She was the project coordinator, for example, for digitising the letters of William of Orange  and also for digitising the State Historical Publications, a sources publication published in 450 parts by the former Institute since 1905. She is currently the coordinator for the projects for the Letters of Constantijn Huygens, those of Johan de Witt, and Dutch and Frisian Stadtholders’ Wives, in which the correspondence is being digitised and made accessible in a database. With Ton van Kalmthout, she is also coordinating the project on the diaries of Willem de Clercq.