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Frits van Oostrom

Frits van Oostrom

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Frits van Oostrom (born 15 May 1953 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is university professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair. From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 1995.[1] In May 2005 he became president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for a three-year period. He had been member of the same institution since 1994.[2]

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In the later years Van Oostrom was given the task to assemble a Canon of the Netherlands, meaning: what everyone should know of the Netherlands and its history.

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    "NWO Spinoza Prize 1995". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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    "Frits van Oostrom". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.


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