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3,070 search results for “historical” in the Public website

• Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota Research output

  Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx

• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies Event - 27 March 2023
• The dawn of Dutch: language change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD Research project

  The main goal of this project is to answer the question: how did Dutch acquire its own, distinctive linguistic characteristics?

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272649

• Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison' News - 14 March 2024

  Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison’.

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.cabal.lopez@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

• The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation Research output

  This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.

• Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology Event
• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies (5 ECTS) Course
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  Casper van Dijk PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.van.dijk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.e.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272243

• 
  Marina Terkourafi Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273159

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad Assistant Professor Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.rafiee.rad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273942

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Stefan Norbruis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.norbruis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275012

• The Hittite Inherited Lexicon Research output

  This dissertation attempts to describe the linguistic history of Hittite on the basis of a systematic etymological treatment of its entire inherited lexicon, precisely analyzing the phonological and morphological developments.

• 
  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273983

• Letters confiscated from Dutch ships now online News - 13 September 2013

  More than a thousand 17th- and 18th-century Dutch letters from seized ships are now available online. The letters are a gold mine for researchers wanting to study the everyday language used by men and women during this period.

• Adaptive performance practice of instrumental chamber music in German cities at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries Research project

  This research proposal focuses on historically informed performance (HIP) and adaptive performance practices within the late 18th-century German musical context.

• 
  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272413

• Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages Research output

  This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.

• Third oldest Papiamento text discovered News - 8 November 2012

  Leiden University researchers have discovered by chance a note from 1783 in Papiamento. They are working on a linguistic study on confiscated Dutch letters. The ‘Letters as loot’ project is headed by Professor Marijke van der Wal.

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  Axel Palmér Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.palmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’ News - 3 February 2025

  If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…

• Home magazines of yesteryear: Upholsterers were the interior designers of the eighteenth century' News - 17 March 2023

  Today, anyone wanting a new look for their living room watches a home decorating programme or buys an interior design magazine. In the eighteenth century, people went to an upholstry specialist, who would provide you with new wall coverings, curtains and much-needed accessories. PhD candidate Aagje…

• Join our Information Evening in Leiden historic center (or online) Event - 15 November 2021
• La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia Research output

  A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.

• Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’ News - 25 July 2022

  A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…

• The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre News - 7 June 2021

  Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 18th-century public preferred to watch ‘Spanish theatre’. University lecturer Olga van Marion has written a book about this, together with Frans Blom (University…

• Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection Research output

  Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection. By Tamsyn Adams and Sophie Feyder.

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  Louise Friis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.s.friis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Olga Krasnoukhova Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.krasnoukhova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andrew Wigman Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.wigman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian Research output

  In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.

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  Rafal Matuszewski Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.matuszewski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272701

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  Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.gonzalez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272054

• (Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch Research output

  In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.

• Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’ News - 25 April 2022

  How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.

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  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.d.oyuu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alette Jansen PhD-fellow

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.c.jansen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277785

• Basso continuo sources from the Dutch Republic c. 1620-c1790 Research output

  Between 1600 and 1800 countless manuals appeared on the subject: the improvised bass part on the harpsichord, pianoforte or organ. Musician and researcher Kathryn Cok unravels the secrets of the Dutch basso continuo accompaniment for modern-day musicians.

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  Vincent Chang Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.k.chang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272151

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  Abel Warries PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.r.warries@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Marian Klamer Director PhD programs / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.a.f.klamer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272783

• UnToLD: Unraveling cultural historical dimensions of contemporary experiences of tiredness of life among older adults Event - 12 May 2025

  Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

• Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL) Event
• Toward an AI Attuned to Dissent and Consensus in Historical Events: Evidence from Wikipedia Event - 12 December 2025

  Lecture

• The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia Event - 3 April 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

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  Herman Paul Academic director/ Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272757