Remieg Aerts

Aerts was born in Amsterdam. After secondary school he briefly considered studying Chinese, but instead of that he started studying history. After he finished his PhD, for which he took ten years,{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.folia.nl/actueel/103193/remieg-aerts-nieuwe-hoogleraar-nederlandse-geschiedenis |title=Remieg Aerts nieuwe hoogleraar Nederlandse geschiedenis |language=Dutch |publisher=Folia |date=8 August 2016 |accessdate=10 May 2021}} in 1997 at the University of Groningen Aerts became assistant professor in Philosophy of History at that same university. Later he became professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/about-the-university/meet-the-uva/remieg-aerts/remieg-aerts.htmlr |title=Remieg Aerts |language=English |publisher=University of Amsterdam|date= |accessdate=10 May 2021}} In 2000 he won the Dr. Wijnaendts Francken-prijs for his work De letterheren. Liberale cultuur in de negentiende eeuw: het tijdschrift De Gids.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.letterkundigmuseum.nl/Literair-centrum/Literaire-prijzen/WriterID/1952/WriterName/RemiegAerts/Mode/DetailsWriter |title=Literaire prijzen - Remieg Aerts |language=Dutch |publisher=Nederlands Letterkundig Museum |date= |accessdate=1 August 2015}} In 2003 Aerts was one of the starters of the Omstreden Democratie (Controversial Democracy) project of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, which involved dozens of scientists doing research on Dutch democracy.{{cite web|author=Maarten Muns |url=http://www.kennislink.nl/publicaties/hoe-stevig-is-onze-democratie |title=Hoe stevig is onze democratie? |language=Dutch |publisher=Kennislink.nl |date=16 July 2013 |accessdate=1 August 2015}} He cooperated in this project along with other Dutch professors of Dutch history as James Kennedy and Henk te Velde. Aerts was also involved in the founding of the Research School of Political History, which functions as an educational institution for PhD-students.{{cite web|author=Margit van der Steen |url=https://onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl/samen-een-vak-beoefenen-in-gesprek-met-remieg-aerts-bouwpastoor-van-de-opg/ |title='Samen een vak beoefenen'. In gesprek met Remieg Aerts, bouwpastoor van de OPG |language=Dutch |publisher=Research School Political History |date=6 June 2023 |accessdate=30 January 2024}}

He was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/6061 |title=Remieg Aerts |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=1 August 2015}} In 2017 Aerts transferred from the Radboud University to the University of Amsterdam where he became professor of Dutch History. Three years later he received the "Nederlandse biografieprijs" (Dutch Biography Price) for his book Thorbecke wil het about the 19th century Dutch liberal statesman Johan Rudolph Thorbecke.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/faculteiten/nl/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/nieuws/2020/11/remieg-aerts-wint-nederlandse-biografieprijs-2020-met-thorbecke-biografie.html |title=Remieg Aerts wint Nederlandse Biografieprijs 2020 met Thorbecke-biografie |language=Dutch |publisher=University of Amsterdam |date=2 November 2020 |accessdate=10 May 2021}} On 28 June 2022 Aerts held his farewell speech at the University of Amsterdam and his speech was titled Lalla Rookh, of de waan van de wetenschap (Lalla Rookh, or the delusion of science).{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.folia.nl/wetenschap/157984/hoogleraar-nederlandse-geschiedenis-racisme-werd-in-19e-eeuw-wetenschappelijk-gefundeerd |title=Hoogleraar Nederlandse geschiedenis: 'Racisme werd in 19e eeuw wetenschappelijk gefundeerd' |language=Dutch |publisher=Folia |date=28 June 2023 |accessdate=29 June 2023}}

• Thorbecke wil het: Biografie van een staatsman. (4e ed.) Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2018.
• Alles is cultuur: Vensters op moderne cultuurgeschiedenis. (ed. with Klaas van Berkel and Babette Hellemans) Hilversum: Verloren, 2018.
• Omstreden democratie: over de problemen van een succesverhaal. (with Peter de Goede) Amsterdam: Boom, 2013.
• Land van kleine gebaren: Een politieke geschiedenis van Nederland 1780-1990. (with Herman de Liagre Böhl, Piet de Rooy and Henk te Velde) Amsterdam: Boom, 2013.
• De letterheren. Liberale cultuur in de negentiende eeuw: het tijdschrift De Gids Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1997.

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• [https://www.uva.nl/profiel/a/e/r.a.m.aerts/r.a.m.aerts.html Profile on University of Amsterdam]
• [http://www.narcis.nl/person/RecordID/PRS1255397/Language/nl Profile on NARCIS]

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