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LastDodo number
5311335
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
PAULUS MERULA I.C. ET HISTORIARUM PROFESSOR.
Year
1625
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Dimensions
15,5 x 10,4
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Portrait bust to the left within oval of Paulus Merula (1558-1607). Merula grew up in Dordrecht. From 1593 he was professor of history at the University of Leiden. In 1597 he became the University Librarian. In the same year, he was appointed the official historian of Holland on December 21. In 1603 he became rector magnificus. He was a friend of Janus Dousa and Daniël Heinsius. Copper engraving by Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg (1580-1612). Used as an illustration in: J. Meursius. ,, Athenae Batavae (...), Leiden, 1625. Source: National Office for Art History Documentation, 2015.

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