Jan Luiten van Zanden
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Jan Luiten van Zanden | |
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 Zanden in 2003 | |
| Born | November 15, 1955 |
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| Discipline | Economic and social history |
| Institutions | Utrecht University VU University Amsterdam University of Groningen Stellenbosch University |
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Jan Luiten van Zanden (born 15 November 1955) is a Dutch economic historian and professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University. He is a widely acknowledged specialist in Dutch, European and Global Economic History.
Van Zanden graduated cum laude in Economics from VU University Amsterdam in 1981. He received a doctorate from Wageningen University and Research Centre in 1985 with a thesis titled "The economic development of Dutch agriculture in the 19th century, 1800-1914."
After obtaining his PhD, he worked for two years at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 1987 to 1993, he was a professor of economic and social history at VU University Amsterdam. In 1992, he was appointed professor of history at Urecht University and since 2009, is a faculty professor of economic and social history. In addition, in 2010, (for a period of five years) he was appointed honorary professor as the Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen. Since 2011, Van Zanden has been an honorary professor at Stellenbosch University.
He was particularly concerned with the economic history of the Netherlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also with the economic history of Indonesia, with the history of Rabobank and that of Royal Dutch Shell.
Awards and memberships
In 2003, he was awarded the Spinoza Prize by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for "putting the entire Dutch economic history on the international map and for leading excellent research projects".[1] In 1997, he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,[2] where he was an academy professor from 2011 to 2016.
In 2009, he was the president of the organising committee of the fifteenth World Economic History Congress 2009 in Utrecht. In 2014, he was awarded the Pierson Penning Prize, and in 2016, he became a member of the Academia Europaea.
