Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) – the Ocellus of the Netherlands ; Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) - Ocellus Niderlandów

Anna Maria van Schurman was a seventeenth-century scholar, poet, and painter. Becoming proficient in many languages, she was greatly admired by her contemporaries. She wrote poetry, prose works, and produced paintings and engravings. Her best known text Dissertatio de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam et meliores litteras aptitudine (1641) is dedicated to women’s rights to education. She also wrote De vitae termino (1639) and autobiography Εὐκληρία seu Melioris partis electio (1673). In the Eukleria she not only depicted her life, but also explained the reasons for joining the Labadists. Anna Mar... Mehr ...