Leiden University Library - Librarians of Leiden University

Librarians of Leiden University

Since the founding of the university in 1575 there have been 25 Librarians of Leiden University:

  • Janus Dousa (1585–1593)
  • Janus Dousa Jr (1593–1596)
  • Paullus Merula (1597–1607)
  • Daniel Heinsius (1607–1655)
  • Anthony Thysius (1655–1665)
  • Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1665–1671)
  • Fredericus Spanheim (1672–1701)
  • Wolfendus Senguerdus (1701–1724)
  • Petrus Burmannus (1724–1741)
  • David van Royen (1741)
  • Abraham Gronovius (1741–1775)
  • David Ruhnkenius (1775–1798)
  • Daniel Wyttenbach (1798–1820)
  • Johannes van Voorst (1820–1833)
  • Jacob Geel (1833–1858)
  • Willem George Pluygers (1859–1879)
  • Willem Nicolaas du Rieu (1880–1897)
  • Scato Gocko de Vries (1897–1924)
  • Frederik Casparus Wieder (1924–1938)
  • Tietse Pieter Sevensma (1938–1947)
  • Antoine Hubert Marie Cornelis Kessen (1947–1961)
  • Johan Remmet de Groot (1961–1983)
  • Jacques van Gent (1983–1993)
  • Paul Gerretsen (1994–2004)
  • Kurt de Belder (2005–present)

Read more about this topic:  Leiden University Library

Famous quotes containing the word university:

    “Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
    —Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)