Eric Jorink Author

Eelke Muller, MFA, studied Literary Theory and History at the University of Groningen. Currently, she works at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) and conducts research for the Dutch Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War. Recently, she co-authored the study The Looting and Return of Dutch Cultural Property During and After World War II (Waanders, 2023) and wrote Tracking Down the Provenance of Old Masters (2023).

Eric Jorink, PhD, studied History and Philosophy at the University of Groningen and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Prior to this, he was the Andrew W. Mellon professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He currently holds the Teylers Chair at the University of Leiden and works as a researcher at the Huygens Institute. Jorink has published numerous books and articles including Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Brill, 2010); Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (W-Books 2011); Newton and the Netherlands (Leiden University Press 2012); and Crawly Creatures (exhibition catalogue Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2022).