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On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's university - Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers and the general public alike: Mercator sapiens. This famous oration on the wise merchant is now considered a key text of the Dutch Golden Age. At the same time it is surrounded by misunderstandings regarding Barlaeus himself, the nascent Illustrious School, and Amsterdam's merchant culture. This volume presents the first English translation and the first critical edition of the Mercator sapiens, preceded by an introduction providing historical context and a fresh interpretation of this intriguing text.Anna-Luna Post and Corinna Vermeulen shed new light on the roles of humanist scholarship and rhetoric in Holland's metropolis. Caspar Barlaeus's 1632 oration, The Wise Merchant, has often been cited but seldom read. Their edition, translation and introduction set the work into its historical context with learning, clarity and economy. - Anthony Grafton

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Higher education --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Amsterdam --- 378.4 <492 AMSTERDAM> --- College teachers --- Academicians --- Academics (Persons) --- College instructors --- College lecturers --- College professors --- College science teachers --- Lectors (Higher education) --- Lecturers, College --- Lecturers, University --- Professors --- Universities and colleges --- University academics --- University instructors --- University lecturers --- University professors --- University teachers --- Teachers --- Universiteiten--Nederland--AMSTERDAM --- Biography. --- Faculty --- Universiteit van Amsterdam --- -Amsterdam. --- UvA --- University of Amsterdam --- Athenaeum Amstelaedamse --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). --- Universidad de Amsterdam --- GUA --- G.U.A. --- Università di Amsterdam --- Universität Amsterdam --- אוני׳ אמשטרדם --- Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- History --- -History --- 378.4 <492 AMSTERDAM> Universiteiten--Nederland--AMSTERDAM --- -Universiteit Amsterdam --- Biography --- Universiteit Amsterdam --- History. --- Amsterdam. --- Amsterdam. Universiteit --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). Universiteit

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In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.

Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- History --- Education --- Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Universiteit van Amsterdam --- Illustrious School (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Amsterdam. --- UvA --- University of Amsterdam --- Athenaeum Amstelaedamse --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). --- Universidad de Amsterdam --- GUA --- G.U.A. --- Università di Amsterdam --- Universität Amsterdam --- אוני׳ אמשטרדם --- Amsterdam (Netherlands) --- Amesterdão (Netherlands) --- Amstelodamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelaedamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelredamum (Netherlands) --- Amsterodamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelrodamum (Netherlands) --- Intellectual life --- Amsterdam. Universiteit --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). Universiteit

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Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- 378.4 <492 AMSTERDAM> --- 378.4 <492 AMSTERDAM> Universiteiten--Nederland--AMSTERDAM --- Universiteiten--Nederland--AMSTERDAM --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- History --- Education --- Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Universiteit van Amsterdam --- Amsterdam. --- UvA --- University of Amsterdam --- Athenaeum Amstelaedamse --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). --- Universidad de Amsterdam --- GUA --- G.U.A. --- Università di Amsterdam --- Universität Amsterdam --- אוני׳ אמשטרדם --- Illustrious School (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Amsterdam (Netherlands) --- Amesterdão (Netherlands) --- Amstelodamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelaedamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelredamum (Netherlands) --- Amsterodamum (Netherlands) --- Amstelrodamum (Netherlands) --- Intellectual life --- History of education and educational sciences --- Secondary education --- anno 1600-1699 --- Amsterdam --- Amsterdam. Universiteit --- Amsterdam (Netherlands). Universiteit