Dirk van Miert is director of the , of the and Professor (by special endowment of the KNAW) of the History of Knowledge from a Digital Perspective. He specializes in early modern networks of scholars and universities. He supervised (2017-2022) a large research ERC Consolidator project about .
Profile: intellectual history of (early) modern Europa, History of Knowledge, science, universities, education, scholarship, philology, Latin language and culture, biblical scholarship, gender relations in the world of learning, humanism, and the long social history of the Republic of Letters (Respublica litteraria or Respublica litterarum/R茅publique des Lettres/Gelehrtenrepublik).
Critical acclaim for The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger, edited by Paul Botley and Dirk van Miert, 8 vols (Geneva: Droz, 2012) xcv + 4,823 pp.
鈥楾o sum up, this is the rare thing: an edition exemplary in every respect that comes as close to perfection as is humanly possible.鈥� - Renaissance Quarterly
鈥榯he seamless presentation achieved in the main by Botley and van Miert represents an astonishing achievement.鈥� - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
鈥楾he herculean labors of the two editors, Paul Botley and Dirk van Miert, could justly become the subject of Pindaric odes; one magnificent poem per volume would be a modest tribute.鈥� - History of Universities
鈥極ne hates to use trite expressions in a review like 鈥渕onument of scholarship鈥� and 鈥渢imeless work of erudition, not to be redone,鈥� but sometimes these expressions are what the project calls for.鈥� - Seventeenth-Century 木瓜福利影视 (Neo-Latin 木瓜福利影视)
鈥榟et bijzonder rijke voetnotenapparaat bij de uitgegeven brieven getuigt op stille maar krachtige wijze van de ontzaglijke filologisch-historische arbeid die Paul Botley en Dirk van Miert hebben verzet.鈥� - De zeventiende eeuw
鈥榰n 茅v茅nement consid茅rable鈥� - Biblioth猫que d'Humanisme et Renaissance
鈥榰n producto de la m谩xima calidad cient铆fica鈥� - Calamus Renascens
鈥楾he resulting eight-volume product is also a testament to [the editors鈥橾 scholarly acumen and commonsense approach.鈥� - English Historical Review
鈥榓 truly magnificent edition that illuminates the tremendously energetic world of learning in early modern times, 鈥� in 鈥� eight superbly printed volumes鈥� - Church History and Religious Culture
Volume on the history of pre-tertiary education in Amsterdam
Volume about Utrecht history of knowledge
Volume about collective identities in the learned world
Monograph on biblical philology
Volume biblical criticism
Scaliger Correspondence
Communicating Observations
Isaac Vossius
Dissertation Dutch
Dissertation English
Biography Junius
Volume on Junius
Lias, Journal
Mapping German Idealist Networks
Chair
History of Knowledge from a Digital Perspective