G. Schilder
Günter Schilder (b. 1942) studied geography and history at Vienna University from 1960 to 1967. He undertook two years of research in the Netherlands for his dissertation and in 1970 he obtained a PhD at Vienna University. Since 1971 he has worked in the Netherlands at Utrecht University on the history of cartography. In 1981 he was appointed professor of the history of cartography, a position he continued until his retirement in 2005. Schilder has written numerous publications on the history of Dutch cartography and discoveries. As a result the knowledge of and appreciation for Dutch cartography in its Golden Age has been considerably augmented.
Martijn Storms
Drs. Martijn Storms (1978) was born and raised in Arnhem. He studied Social Geography at the University of Utrecht, with Cartography as his specialisation. After his graduation in 2001 he worked as a junior teacher-researcher for the cartography department of the Faculty of Geosciences of the Univer...
Harald Kleinschmidt
Harald Gerhard Heinrich Otto Kurt Kleinschmidt was born (1949) and educated in Germany. After his Habilitation in 1985 he worked from 1986 till 1989 as a Privatdozent for the University of Stuttgart and from 1989 till 2000 as a Jokyôju (Associate Professor) of the history of international relations ...
H. de la Fontaine Verwey
Herman de la Fontaine Verwey (1903-1989) occupied, between 1954 and 1974, the first chair for the science of the book as a professor at the University of Amsterdam. He also was, since 1941, librarian of the Amsterdam University Library. In 1969 he was one of the founders of the scholarly periodical ...
Marco van Egmond
Dr Marco van Egmond (1969), studied Human Geography at Utrecht University from 1988 until 1994, worked for three years as a journalist for local and regional newspapers, and in 1998 started with his research on the Dutch map publishing house of Covens & Mortier. This led to his doctoral thesis in 20...
J. Storm van Leeuwen
Dr. Jan Storm van Leeuwen (1943) studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. From 1968 until his retirement in December 2005 he was employed by The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, where he worked for the larger part of his career as a rare book librarian specializing in book bindings. He...