Marjan Schwegman
Marjan Schwegman | |
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Born | 20 February 1951 |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Order of Orange-Nassau |
Maria Janna "Marjan" Schwegman (born 20 February 1951, Middenmeer)[1] is a Dutch historian who was managing director of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies from March 2007 to 18 February 2016.[2] Besides that, she is a professor in Politics and Culture in the 20th century at the faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.[3]
Life and work
Marjan Schwegman studied history at the University of Amsterdam.[2]
From 2003 to 2007 Marjan Schwegman was managing director of the
From 2007, she occupied the chair of Politics and Culture in the Long Twentieth Century. Since 2003, her main work is no longer at the university: from 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. She has been director of NIOD since 2007.[2]
From 2009–2010, she was vice-chairman of the Commissie-Davids (an independent commission supervised by jurist Willibrord Davids, the 'Davids Committee') which looked into the decision-making process for the Dutch support in the Iraq War.[6]
On 18 February 2016, Jet Bussemaker decorated Schwegman with the title officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau).
She wrote a biography of the Italian educator Maria Montessori (2000) as well as a biography of the 19th-century Italian feminist Gualberta Beccari, and biographical articles on Giuseppe Mazzini and Cesare Lombroso.[7]
References
- ^ Prof.dr. M.J. Schwegman (1951– ) at the Catalogus Professorum Academiæ Rheno-Traiectinæ
- ^ a b c "Prof. dr. Marjan Schwegman employee page at NIOD". NIOD. 2015-12-19. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
- ^ "prof. dr. Maria Schwegman employee page". Universiteit Utrecht. 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
- ^ "Sprekers praatcafé 2007". Nederlandersinrome.net (in Dutch). 2007-02-15. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae Prof. dr. Marjan Schwegman". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
- ^ "Vooral wetenschappers in commissie-Davids" (in Dutch). 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
- ^ "Translation - Maria Montessori, 1870-1952 - Letterenfonds". www.letterenfonds.nl. Retrieved 2024-02-29.