Who was the first female university student in the Netherlands? Pose this question to anyone in the Netherlands and the incorrect answer Aletta Jacobs will probably come your way. But more than two centuries earlier, in 1636, Anna Maria van Schurman had become the first female university student in Utrecht, and thereby the first in the Netherlands and even in the whole of Europe. Anna Maria van Schurman attended not only private lectures at the University of Utrecht, but also public disputations and “listening” lectures in the fields of languages and medicine, but especially in theology. She wrote poetry in many languages and published a dissertation on women’s rights to academic study. Her book Opuscula Hebraea Graeca Latina et Gallica was reprinted several times and was noted internationally. Her knowledge of languages was astounding. She was proficient in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syrian, Samaritan, Arabic and Ethiopian, to name but a few. Van Schurman was well-known internationally and became a key figure within a European network of learned women which included Birgitte Thott, Christina of Sweden, Marie le Jars de Gournay, Bathsua Makin and Dorothea Moore. 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 detailed picture of the life and times of Anna Maria van Schurman: her position in the academic world of the seventeenth century, her role within the Republic of Letters, and the content and influence of her publications in the Netherlands and Europe
In the historiography of the university the development of the student journals has rarely been the subject of research. These journals written by and for students, which first appeared in 1825, nevertheless did have an important role for student life. In this article, one of the early student journals, Panathenaeum, which appeared in Groningen in 1842 and 1843, will be studied in order to illustrate some aspects of the so-called early student press (1825-1855). These aspects are respectively the literary elements, the significance of the student journal for local student life and the contribution of the student journal to a growing awareness of a national student community. Ook aandacht voor de studentenpers in Utrecht en Leiden
Over Hongaarse studenten in Nederland, ook Utrecht (naamlijsten)
Het begon in 1989 met een groepje studenten in Utrecht dat op zich nam buitenlandse uitwisselingsstudenten wegwijs te maken in de stad. Twintig jaar later is het Erasmus Student Network een internationale organisatie die de belangen behartigt van uitwisselingsstudenten in ruim dertig landen. Een dubbelinterview met de oprichter van toen en de Nederlandse voorzitter van nu
Spanningen tussen bevolkingsgroepen zijn voor een stad niet ongewoon. Maar als een van die groepen bestaat uit studenten, dan is sprake van een nieuw fenomeen. Al eeuwen dragen studenten bij aan de bloei van oude universiteitssteden als Leiden en Utrecht. En Groningen, maar daar begint het volk nu te morren over de studenten en hun leefstijl
Documentaire over het leven van Geertruida (Trui) van Lier en over de opvang van joodse kinderen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog door het Utrechtse studentenverzet
Over lezingen van deze schrijvers voor studentengezelschappen in Utrecht, over Vox Studiosorum, over de Litterair-Histori¬sche Kring
Geschiedenis van het in 1965 aan de Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan geopende studentencomplex IBB te Utrecht