Arthur der Weduwen

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Arthur der Weduwen is a Dutch historian and writer. His work primarily focuses on the Dutch Republic, the history of the book and the emergence of the newspaper.

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Educated at the University of Exeter, der Weduwen took his doctoral degree at St Andrews University, where he currently works on the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. [1] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [2]

Career

His book Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700, published in 2017 in two volumes, provided the first complete survey of newspapers published in the Low Countries at the beginning of serial news publication. The book was well received by academics, [3] [4] and awarded a Menno Hertzberger Prize in 2019. [5]

Der Weduwen has collaborated with Andrew Pettegree on a number of books about the publishing industry in the Netherlands in the Dutch Golden Age. These include The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (2019) in English and Dutch, [6] [7] and studies of the origins of advertising, The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Modern Advertising and News and Business and Public Information. Advertisements and Public Announcements in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers, 1620-1675. They also co-wrote The Library: a Fragile History (2021) which charts the history of the library from the ancient world to the modern era. [8]

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References

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  2. "List of RHS Fellows" . Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  3. Raymond, Joad (2018). "Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618–1700. Arthur der Weduwen. 2 vols. Library of the Written Word 58; The Handpress World 43. Leiden: Brill, 2017. $403". Renaissance Quarterly . Cambridge University Press. 71 (3): 1120–1122. doi:10.1086/700483. S2CID   165194088 . Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  4. "The Golden Compass". 97. Antwerp Bibliophile Society. 2019: 71–72. Retrieved 7 July 2021.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  6. "Leiden University Book Presentation". 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  7. van Stipriaan, René (30 October 2019). "How Amsterdam Became the Bookshop of the World". The Low Countries. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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