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23 unusual facts about University of Amsterdam


Allard Pierson Museum

The name of the Allard Pierson Museum derives from the first professor of classical archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, Allard Pierson (1831–1896).

Antoinette Bourignon

The entire collection now rests in the library of the University of Amsterdam.

Benjamin J. Kaplan

Benjamin J. Kaplan is a historian and professor of Dutch history at University College London and the University of Amsterdam.

Brian Schulz

A 1997 graduate of the University of Connecticut, Brian also participated in the university’s study abroad program at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

Caroline S. Wagner

Dr. Wagner's thesis adviser was Dutch sociologist Professor Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Wagner earned her doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in Science and Technology Dynamics; a Master of Arts degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University; and a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, Washington, DC.

Costasiella coronata

The three paratypes are stored in the Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam.

Geert Reuten

Reuten also teaches economics at the University of Amsterdam and is internationally recognized as an expert on Marx and Hegel.

Georg Ruge

In 1888 Ruge became a professor of anatomy at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1897 obtained the same position at the University of Zurich.

Geronthres

Dutch excavations (University of Amsterdam) point to first settlement of the acropolis hill in the (Final) Neolithic period.

Heertje

Arnold Heertje, a Dutch economist, professor (at the University of Amsterdam), writer and columnist (born Breda, 19 February 1934)

Ilse Huizinga

However, music did not feature heavily on her career ladder until she spent a year in Australia and finished a degree in Public Administration at the University of Amsterdam.

Joop Wijn

Wijn was born in Haarlem and has a master's degree in both economics and Dutch law from the University of Amsterdam.

Kurt Baschwitz

In 1935 Kurt Baschwitz was offered a position with the International Institute of Social History and then in the same year he started to lecture on the history of newspapers at the University of Amsterdam.

Leona E. Tyler

In 1962, she received the Fulbright scholarship to work at the University of Amsterdam.

Meagre Company

It was located there until the building was deconstructed to build the library of the University of Amsterdam.

Petra Huybrechtse

Huybrechtse has degrees in psychology from St. Ignatiuscollege of Purmerend, University of Amsterdam, and University of Leiden (2000).

Richard Cloward

Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University.

SMART Project Space

Later, SMART moved into a larger building, the so-called Bushuis on number 48 (currently a library of the University of Amsterdam) in the center of Amsterdam.

SWI-Prolog

The name SWI is derived from Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica ("Social Science Informatics"), the former name of the group at the University of Amsterdam, where Wielemaker is employed.

Uwe Wagschal

Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Heidelberg (1994-1997); Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bremen (1997-2001); visiting fellowships at the Universities of Amsterdam, Hull (UK), and Colchester (UK).

Wouter Hanegraaff

Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born 1961) is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In 1999 he became professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.


Ahmed Ismail Samatar

Samatar has lectured at many universities and colleges, including Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of Economics and Political Science, Somali National University, Toronto University, University of Amsterdam, York University, University of Otago, and Wellesley College.

Asad Naqvi

After completing his formal education, he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Amsterdam before joining the University of Wales, Swansea in October 2005 as an assistant professor.

Benedikt Löwe

Since early 2000 he is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and since late 2000s also Professor at the University of Hamburg.

Bram Peper

After finishing the HBS, Peper studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam until 1965 and economy and sociology at the University of Oslo (1963/1964) and got his PhD at the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (Currently Erasmus University) in 1972.

Felix Douma

Douma returned to his birth country of the Netherlands, where he earned a Doctorandus in Letters, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1972.

Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt

After working at the University of Amsterdam with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1894 and 1895, Heinrich Goldschmidt became full professor at the ETH.

Jouko Väänänen

He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki and a professor of mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam.

Manuel Lima

Among these venues are TED Global, Lift, Ars Electronica, OFFF, Eyeo, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal Society of Arts, New York Public Library, TEDx Buenos Aires, Royal College of Art, Open University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid, Sheffield School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon.

Max Kohnstamm

He was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before taking up a fellowship at American University, Washington, D.C..

Melvyn Dubofsky

He was a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University in 1977, a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Salzburg in 1988, and was a Distinguished Professor holding the John Adams Professorship in U.S. History at the University of Amsterdam in 2000.

Research Centre for East European Studies

Furthermore international networks exist with institutions in the USA (e.g. Hoover, Harvard and the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick) and Western Europe (e.g. ETH Zürich, the University of Amsterdam and Cambridge University).

Sandra Harding

She has held Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Amsterdam (1987), University of Costa Rica (1990), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) (1987), and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1994).

Titia de Lange

De Lange obtained her Masters on "Chromatin structure of the human ß-globin gene locus" at the University of Amsterdam in 1981, and subsequently her PhD at the same institution in 1985 with Piet Borst on surface antigen genes in trypanosomes.