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Anna Maria van Schurman

1607 - 1678

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Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 – May 4, 1678) was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became a polyglot proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and Ethiopic, as well as various contemporary European languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Maria van Schurman has received more than 147,073 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Anna Maria van Schurman is the 426th most popular painter (up from 458th in 2019), the 1,177th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,279th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Painter.

Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch scholar and philosopher. She was the first woman to receive a university degree and was a leading figure in the intellectual circles of the Dutch Golden Age. Van Schurman was a gifted linguist and one of the first female academics in the world. She corresponded with the likes of René Descartes, Queen Christina of Sweden, and John Milton.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anna Maria van Schurman ranks 426 out of 2,023. Before her are Bernard Buffet, Marianne von Werefkin, Adam Elsheimer, Theophanes the Greek, Enrique Simonet, and Lovis Corinth. After her are Yves Tanguy, Mikhail Vrubel, Zinaida Serebriakova, Maud Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Suzuki Harunobu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, Anna Maria van Schurman ranks 3. Before her are Michiel de Ruyter, and Madeleine de Scudéry. After her are Jan Lievens, John Harvard, Infante Carlos of Spain, Zhu Yousong, Wenceslaus Hollar, Paul Gerhardt, Akile Hatun, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and Antoine Gombaud. Among people deceased in 1678, Anna Maria van Schurman ranks 4. Before her are Jacob Jordaens, Wu Sangui, and Jan Brueghel the Younger. After her are Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, François Pierre La Varenne, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Karel Dujardin, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Antonio de Pereda, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anna Maria van Schurman ranks 1,177 out of 7,253. Before her are Johann Elert Bode (1747), Mesut Özil (1988), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Horst Tappert (1923), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), and Wilhelm Tempel (1821). After her are Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1754), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Franz Ehrle (1845), Paul Natorp (1854), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), and August Landmesser (1910).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Anna Maria van Schurman ranks 36. Before her are Stefan Lochner (1410), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Max Klinger (1857), Lucian Freud (1922), and Adam Elsheimer (1578). After her are Erich Heckel (1883), Konrad Witz (1400), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), and Godfrey Kneller (1646).

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