Jan Luiten van Zanden

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Jan Luiten van Zanden
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Zanden in 2003
Born (1955-11-15) November 15, 1955 (age 67)
Institution Utrecht University
VU University Amsterdam
University of Groningen
Stellenbosch University
FieldEconomic and social history
Website www.uu.nl/medewerkers/jlvanzanden/0

Jan Luiten van Zanden (born 15 November 1955) is a Dutch economic historian and professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University. He is a widely acknowledged specialist in Dutch, European and Global Economic History.

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Career

Van Zanden graduated cum laude in Economics from the VU University Amsterdam in 1981. He received a doctorate from Wageningen University and Research Centre in 1985 with a thesis titled "The economic development of Dutch agriculture in the 19th century, 1800-1914."

After obtaining his PhD he worked for two years at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 1987 to 1993 he was professor of economic and social history at the VU University Amsterdam. In 1992 he was appointed professor in history at Utrecht University and since 2009 is faculty professor of economic and social history. In addition, in 2010 (for a period of five years) he was appointed honorary professor as the Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen. Since 2011 Van Zanden is an honorary professor at the Stellenbosch University.

He was particularly concerned with the economic history of the Netherlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also with the economic history of Indonesia, with the history of Rabobank and that of Royal Dutch Shell.

Awards and memberships

In 2003 he was awarded the Spinoza Prize by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for "putting the entire Dutch economic history on the international map and for leading excellent research projects". [1] In 1997 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, [2] where he was Academy Professor from 2011 to 2016.

In 2009, he was president of the organising committee of the fifteenth World Economic History Congress 2009 in Utrecht. In 2014 he was awarded the Pierson Penning Prize and in 2016 he became a member of the Academia Europaea.

Select Publications

Books

Van Zanden has authored and co-authored several books including:

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References

  1. "Jan Luiten van Zanden op de website van het NWO". Archived from the original on 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. "Jan Luiten van Zanden". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018.

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