Willem Frijhoff#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2594 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Willem Frijhoff passed away April 5, 2024.
Positions Held
- 2007 Professor Emeritus
- 1997 - 2007 Professor of History of the modern era at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, 2002 - 2006 Dean of the faculty
- 1983 - 1997 Professor of social history at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam
- 1981 - 1983 Research assistant, Tilburg University
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical anthropology
- Cultural history
- Cultural Franco-Dutch relations
- Historical processes of cultural transmission (upbringing, education, reading culture)
- Historical role of French outside France
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen
- 2010 Descartes-Huygens Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, "for his research and his contribution to Dutch-French cooperation"
- 2021 Honorary member of the Zutphen Historical Association
