About the Journal

The purpose of this collection is to provide summary information on the scholars who taught at premodern European universities or were members of scientific academies. The period we cover goes from the emergence of the first universities (1000) to the eve of the Industrial Revolution (1800). Each article will cover one university / academy. The collection will progress together with the ERC project  No 883033 “Did elite human capital trigger the rise of the West? Insights from a new database of European scholars”.

 

Link to data:  https://shiny-lidam.sipr.ucl.ac.be/scholars/