The last day of my holiday. Together with my friend, I went out to a museum in the morning and the city of Leiden afterwards. After a lot of walking, we shortly visited the coast/sea nearby before heading

The last day of my holiday. Together with my friend, I went out to a museum in the morning and the city of Leiden afterwards. After a lot of walking, we shortly visited the coast/sea nearby before heading

Leiden was a nice little base for a couple of days on our short trip to The Netherlands, we had timed it so we could be

I really like checking out a bit of local history especially when I have no idea about an area. I saw the castle on the

Copenhagen, Denmark Bristol, England Oslo, Norway. Leiden, The Netherlands. Cheshire, England. We were back home at one of our local parkruns this morning but I slept in, showed up late and forgot to take

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 23 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After devoting a lifetime to the highest flights of scholarship, Joseph Juste Scaliger must have expected that he would be allowed to retire in peace

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 22 ~Part 1~ Temporum (First Edition 1606) In 1606 Joseph Juste Scaliger’s long-anticipated edition of Eusebius’s Chronicon was published in Leiden. Scaliger had originally

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 21 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger & the Thesaurus Temporum Joseph Juste Scaliger worked on his Thesaurus Temporum from 1599 until 1606. These years were not free from the usual

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 20 ~Part 1~ Edition of Scaliger’s Manilius Joseph Juste Scaliger was a scholar of many talents and interests. As a polyglot and a philologist he was always curious about the

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 19 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger After the publication of the Epistle on the Antiquity and Splendour of the Scaliger Family, and The Life Julius Caesar Scaliger in 1594 Joseph Scaliger

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 17 ~Part 1~ Building, Leiden University In the summer of 1593 Joseph Juste Scaliger moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic, where he succeeded Justus Lipsius as Professor of

Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 16 ~Part 1~ IV of France before Paris The publication of De Emendatione Temporum in 1583 marked an important watershed in the life of Joseph Juste Scaliger. The fragile Treaty

De legende van de Cigalois van Saint Hippolyte du Fort. Wat is de oorsprong van deze bijnaam?

Al enige weken hebben we niet geblogd, want we waren druk bezig om ons Leidse huis verkoop-klaar te maken. En ook nog gewoon erbij werken en weer in Nederland 'landen', dan ben je zo zes weken verder!

Do you know who he is? 😂 This dude lives in the Netherlands but is very famous in Russia 🤓

Sinds 1997 is het gedicht Leningrad (1930) van Osip Mandelstam te vinden op een muur aan de Haagweg 29 in Leiden. Het is het 55e muurgedicht dat door de Leidse Stichting TEGEN-BEELD is gerealiseerd. Wilt

Digital scalable vector images of Leiden in Holland, inspired by vintage chromolithographs.

Stell dir vor, du wärst 1900. geboren Wenn du 14 bist beginnt der Erste Weltkrieg und dieser endet mit 18 Millionen Toten. Kurz darauf tötet eine weltweite Pandemie, die spanische Grippe, 50 Millionen

Produktiv zu sein ist das Ziel aller Menschen. In diesem kurzen Leben sollte man richtig alles, was man tun wollte, feststellen. Ansonsten vergeht die ganze Zeit ohne das Ziel zu verwirklichen. Für mich

Jetziges Winter ist für mich das zweite Winter in Deutschland. Die Sehnsucht um nach Indonesien zurück zu fliegen verhärtet dieses Leben. Oft fühle ich mich langweilig wegen des ganz strukturieten Zustand