Maurits van den Boogert

Maurits Hubrecht van den Boogert (born 1972) is a Dutch writer on Ottoman history from about 1700-1900. He studied Orientalism at Leiden University, obtaining his PhD in 2001, and was a researcher in Ottoman history at that institute.^[1] Currently he is employed at Brill Publishers.

Bibliography

• Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria Through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell, 2010

The book reviews the text The Natural History of Aleppo. It then critiques the scientific information contained in that book, reviews the biographies of the authors, gives context of the era in which the book was written, and examines the European perspectives of the authors and the era on Syrian culture, religion, and society.^[2]

• Friends and rivals in the east. Studies in Anglo-Dutch relations in the Levant from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, 2000

The book was reviewed in the Low Countries Historical Review.^[3]

References

1. Maurits H. van den Boogert at the Digital Biography of Dutch History website
2. Lev, Effraim (2012). "Maurits H. van den Boogert, Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria Through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell, The Arcadian Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 256, ISBN 978-0-19-958856-5.". Medical History 56 (01): 99–100. doi:10.1017/S002572730000034X. ISSN 0025-7273.
3. Woude, A.M. van der (2003). "A. Hamilton, A.H. de Groot, M.H. van den Boogert, Friends and rivals in the east. Studies in Anglo-Dutch relations in the Levant from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century". BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 118 (1): 78. doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.5790. ISSN 2211-2898.

External links

• Award Ceremony Sheikh Zayed Book Award, where Boogert accepts an award on behalf of his employer Brill Publishers