Peter Rietbergen

Peter Rietbergen (* 1950 in Bemmel ) is a Dutch historian and writer .

Life

Rietbergen studied at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Sorbonne , Paris , received his doctorate from the Radboud University and was later Deputy Director of the Institute of the Netherlands in Rome . Since 1992 he has held the chair for the history of relations between Europe and the non-European world at Radboud University. Since 2001 Rietbergen has also been a full professor of cultural history . At TANAP (Towards A New Age of Partnership) he is responsible, among other things, for publications from Thai studies .

Under the pseudonym Nicolaas Berg wrote Rietbergen the historical narrative Dood op Deshma (Amsterdam 2001), in Japan the 17th century is located.

Works (selection)

• Breaks, prelates, bureaucrat . Nijmegen 1983 (including dissertation at the University of Nijmegen; a study on the papacy of the 17th century)
• Pieter Both , de eerste landvoogd . de Walburg Pers, Zutphen 1987, ISBN 90-6011-525-2 (2 vols., biography of the first governor general of the Dutch East Indies).
• A short history of the Netherlands . 2nd edition. Bekking, Amersfoort 2000, ISBN 90-6109-180-2 .
• Europe. A cultural history . Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-17229-2 .
• Power and religion in baroque Rome. Barberini cultural policies . Brill, Leiden 2006, ISBN 90-04-14893-0 .