Dr R. Jagersma (Rindert) MA

Rindert Jagersma (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a book historian and bibliographer, specialised in the (quantitative approach of the) book trade of Dutch Republic around 1700. In the NWO-project 'Civic fictions: Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution, c. 1760-1830' he studies the private client accounts lists of the Leiden-based booksellers firm Luchtmans (1683-1848).

His publications concern book ownership and private book collections in the long eighteenth century; the life and works of the Dutch pamphleteer Ericus Walten (1662–1697) and the importance of pamphleteers and booksellers in the dissemination of the radical Enlightenment; the Dutch book trade at the end of the seventeenth century in the Netherlands; the role of censorship; the history of tattoos; and the identification of the hitherto unknown printers of the works of Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677). In the ERC-funded MEDIATE project ('Measuring Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors, and Texts in Europe, 1665–1830'; based at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), he focused on Dutch auction catalogues and their owners.