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Woman of the World. Anna Maria van Schurman, Celebrity
(Marjan Brouwer) The Low Countries - 2008, № 16, pp. 302-305
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The Martena Museum in Franeker houses the Schurman memorabilia, a collection of objects that used to belong to Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678). She was famous for being the most learned woman of her time (In 1636 she studied as the first female student at the university of Utrecht), until, in later life, she joined the Labadists, a religious group that was in the eyes of her contemporaries of a dubious nature, and lived with them in Wiewerd, Friesland.
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