Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 - May 4, 1678) was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became a polyglot proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek. Anna Maria van Schurman. Anna Maria van Schurman (Cologne, 5 November 1607 - 4 May 1678 Wiewerd) became the first female university student of Europe (Utrecht University, 1636) and the most learned woman of her time. Born in Cologne, she lived most of her life behind the Domcathedral in Utrecht, Holland, where she became. read more.
Self portrait by Anna Maria van Schurman, c. 1640 (framed) Project Vox
1658 Anna Maria van Schurman sent a Latin poem to the Danish learned woman Birgitta Thott to congratulate her with her translations from the Latin of Seneca into Danish. 1660-1662 Anna Maria van Schurman, her brother, their aunts and two servants stayed in Lexmond, in the countryside. The two aunts died and were buried in the Cunera Church in. Anna Maria van Schurman (b. 1607-d. 1678) was regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman not only of the Netherlands but also of Europe. She was "the Star of Utrecht," "the Tenth Muse," "a miracle of her sex.". As the first woman to attend non-officially a university, she was also the first to advocate. Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Portrait, 1640; Engraving on paper, 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Related Exhibition. Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age Oct 11, 2019, to Jan 05, 2020 This focus exhibition examines the lives and works of several highly successful artists in the. Education and Erudition. Anna Maria van Schurman was born in 1607 into a wealthy family. Because of her family's financial security she could remain unmarried and devote her entire life to education and arts. Van Schurman's education started early at home. She was able to read when she was only three.
Anna Maria van Schurman Bibliotheek, Letteren, Literatuur
Collection March 31, 2021. Flemish portraitist Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen gives us a window into the world of Dutch education pioneer Anna Maria van Schurman. The gray tones of this portrait belie the dynamic life of the sitter. Van Schurman was known as a "learned lady" by her peers, a remarkable 17th-century artist and scholar, and a force of. Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became a polyglot proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac. Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 - May 4, 1678) was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education.She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and Ethiopic, as well as. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was a Dutch Golden Age scholar, poet, theologian, philosopher, and artist. Read More about Anna Maria van Schurman Read Less about Anna Maria van Schurman. Titles. Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle.
Portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman Painting by MotionAge Designs Pixels
But in 1669 Anna Maria van Schurman, watched by many in disbelief, left the city, church and university of Utrecht to join the Labadists, a radical Protestant group. She attempted to explain the reasons for this turnabout in her Latin autobiography, the Eukleria. The first female university student: Anna Maria van Schurman (1636) provides a. Anna Maria van Schurman. (1607-1678), Poet and scholar. Sitter in 7 portraits. Artist of 1 portrait. Anna Maria van Schurman had become an honorary member of the Utrecht artists' guild in 1643, but was principally known for her intellectual achievements. The first woman to study at a Dutch university, she was famous for her knowledge of.
Over the last three decades, the life and work of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678), a femme savante widely renowned throughout the early modern period, have drawn the unwavering attention of scholars from such various fields as gender history, intellectual history, art history, the history of education, religion, philosophy and, more recently, the history of classics and linguistics. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78) was, in more . than one aspect, an unconventional woman in her own lifetime. As a gifted scholar in many ancient and modern languages, as well as in theology and philosophy, she corresponded with other learned men and women all over Europe in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Arabic. She achieved international
Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 May 14 or 15, 1678) was a Germanborn Dutch painter
Anna Maria van Schurman: Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle edited and translated by Anne R. Larsen and Steve Maiullo, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, the Toronto Series, 81, New York and Toronto, Iter, 2021, 402 pp., $65.95, ISBN 978-1-64959-012-1. Writer, philosopher, theologian, and artist, Anna Maria van Schurmann was perhaps the most learned woman of 17th-century Europe. She was born in 1607, one of four children in a Calvinist family from the Dutch nobility, living in religious exile in Cologne. In 1610, the family returned to the Netherlands, settling in Utrecht.
