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Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became a polyglot proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Arama…
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culture · Dutch artist, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist (1607-1678) · poet · writer · philosopher · theologian · painter · printmaker · etcher · glass engraver · calligrapher · philologist · also Anna Maria van Schurman, Anna Maria Van Schurman, Anna Maria van Schuurman, Anna Maria von Schurman, Maria Schuermans, Anna Maria Schurman
Born 5 November 1607 · Died 4 May 1678 · Q255261
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“A Maid may be a Scholar... The assertion may be proved both from the property of the form of this subject; or the rational soul: and from the very acts and effects themselves. For it is manifest that Maids do actually learn any arts and science.”
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“ignorance and idleness cause vice”
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JSTOR Daily: Sacrifice and Delight in the Mystical Theologies of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon
Died 1678-05-04.
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