Curriculum vitae

Andreas studied History and German language and literature at the Universities Leiden (MA History, 2005) and Bamberg (1. Staatsexamen, 2006). Since February 2007, he works on a dissertation on the relationship between science and (Dutch) empire building in the Malay Archipelago in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The dissertation with the working title Caspar G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854) - A Naturalist as Mediator of Knowledge in an Expanding Dutch Colonial Empire will be finished by end of 2011.

Andreas has also worked on the function of language in (Dutch) colonial context. An article on the Dutch translator Adriaan David Cornets de Groot jun. (1804-1829) at the Javanese court in Surakarta is published in an edited volume on language barriers, linguistic contacts and cultural brokers in the history of Europe’s encounter with the extra-European world.

Andreas has also (co-)taught courses on Dutch colonial history and science in (Dutch) colonial context. He has also worked as temporary coordinator of the Leiden ENCOMPASS program.

Publications and Conferences

Conferences:

2010. Forging New Connections: Adriaan David Cornets de Groot Junior (1804-1829) and the mapping of the Javanese language in the early nineteenth century, Najaarscongres KNHG ‘A new Dutch imperial History’. Den Haag.

2010. Do local encounters matter? The life and career of the naturalist and colonial administrator C.G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854), Second ENCOMPASS Conference on the topic: Monsoon Asia in the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1830. Changes of regime and their aftermath. Mumbai.

2009. Natural History in Dispute: Humboldtian Naturalists in the Netherlands Indies and their ‘Alternative Reading’ of Nature, 1815-1850. KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) symposium on the topic: ‘Alexander von Humboldt in Holland (1800-1900)’. Amsterdam.

2008. The Dutch East Indias as “Contact Zone” for Natural-Historical Research, 1815-1850. Encompass Pilot Conference. Jakarta.

2008. Die wissenschaftliche Erschließung Niederländisch-Ostindiens im frühen 19. Jahrhundert – (deutsche) Naturforscher im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und kolonialer Expansion. Presentation at research colloquium, Prof. Reinhard Wendt, FernUniversität Hagen.

2008. Naturalists as Mediators of Knowledge in an Expanding Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1850. Three Societies Meeting: Connecting Disciplines, Oxford.

2008. A kingdom and its ‘imagined’ colony? – The Malay Archipelago in the Eyes of the Naturalist C.G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854). Workshop: Local Encounters and the Global Circulation of Knowledge, 1750-1850 at Leiden University.

2008. Sprache als Werkzeug kolonialer Expansion: Die Erschließung des Javanischen am Beispiel Adriaan David Cornets de Groots (1804-1829). Annual Meeting of the German Society for Overseas History, Bamberg. Conference topic: Language barriers, linguistic contacts and cultural brokers in the history of Europe’s encounter with the extra-European world. Bamberg.


Publications:

2010. An Interview with the Indonesian Economic Historian Thee Kian Wie. Itinerario. Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, vol. 34, 9-34. (together with Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, KITLV Leiden)  

2010. Sprache im ‘Zwischenraum’. Adriaan David Cornets de Groot jun. (1804-1829) als multilingualer Grenzgänger im zEentraljavanischen Surakarta. In: Sprachgrenzen, Sprachkontakte und kulturelle Vermittler in der Geschichte der europäisch-überseeischen Beziehungen, hg. von Mark Häberlein und Alexander Keese. (forthcoming, 20 pages)  

2009. Encountering the Netherlands Indies. Caspar G.C. Reinwardt’s Field Trip to the East. In: Itinerario. Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, vol. 33, 45-60.