Debora Meijers Explained

Debora Meijers (born 1948)^[1] is an art historian and professor of museum studies at the University of Amsterdam, an educational elective program that she developed herself.

Meijers was born in Amsterdam.^[1] In 1990 she obtained her doctorate under Rob Scheller.^[1] She teaches and writes about the history of art collecting and curation as a science and as a facet of cultural heritage.^[2]

Meijers was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.^[3]

Works

• Klasseren als principe : hoe de k.k. Bildergalerie te Wenen getransformeerd werd in een 'zichtbare geschiedenis van de kunst' (1772-1781), 1990
• Kunst als Natur. Die Habsburger Gemäldegalerie um 1780, Milan, 1995
• Verzamelen: van rariteitenkabinet tot kunstmuseum, with Ellinoor Bergvelt and Mieke Rijnders, Heerlen, 1993 (second edition 2005)
• The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, c. 1725-60, with Renée Kistemaker and Natalja Kopaneva, Amsterdam, 2005

Notes and References

1. Web site: D.J. Meijers, 1948 - . https://web.archive.org/web/20200603192232/http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Meijers;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;start=9;size=1 . Dutch . University of Amsterdam . 3 June 2020.
2. http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/m/e/d.j.meijers/d.j.meijers.html D.J. Meijers
3. Web site: Debora Meijers . https://web.archive.org/web/20170823091352/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/7165 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 23 August 2017.