Historian in troubled times. An intellectual biography of Pontus Heuterus (1535-1602) KU Leuven
The goal of present doctoral project is to offer a thorough, intertextual and contextual analysis of the life and works of the humanist scholar and historian Pontus Heuterus (1535-1602). Born in Holland as the illegitimate son of Jan de Huyter, who was bailiff of Delft and steward or ‘dijkgraaf’ of Delfland, Pontus de Huyter (latinized as Heuterus) enjoyed a decent education in Leiden, Mechlin and Paris. During the Dutch Revolt Heuterus fell ...