Prof.dr. K.J.P.F.M. (Charles) Jeurgens

Function:
  • Professor of Archival Sciences

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2698
E-Mail: k.j.p.f.m.jeurgens@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Vaderlandse Geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 260A
 
Spreekuur / Hours
Na afspraak / by appointment
Fields of interest
The meaning of archives in and for historical research, particularly in relation to historical representation.

History of infrastructural works, particularly about the history of water-management.
Curriculum vitae
Charles Jeurgens (1960) was born in Aarle-Rixtel. He studied social and economic history at the University of Leiden. In 1991 he obtained his Ph.D. in Leiden on a dissertation about the planning of one of the major infrastructural works in the Netherlands in the 19th century: the reclamation of lake Haarlem.

In 1991-1992 he studied archivistics at the Rijksarchiefschool in The Hague and worked at the Rijksarchief in Noord-Brabant in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. From 1992-1994 he worked as editor of sources of the Batavian-French period at the Institute of Netherlands History in The Hague. In 1994 he became Keeper of the Records of the municipality Schiedam and in 1999 he became Keeper of the records of Dordrecht. In 2004 he was appointed as part-time professor in archivistics at the University of Leiden.
Lezingen
Waardering en selectie van archieven. Overvloed en onbehagen. (13 oktober 2008)

Op zoek naar verloren tijd. Archieven, archivarissen en de betekenis van overbrenging. (10 april 2008)

Archieven en wetenschappelijk onderzoek. (31 mei 2006)

Historians and archivists. Two disciplines working with the same papers. (mei 2005)
Major Publications
De Haarlemmermeer. Een studie in planning en beleid, 1836-1858 (Amsterdam 1991)

Ch. Jeurgens en H. Meulenaars, Inventaris van het archief van de familie Van Lanschot, 1294-1900(1982) (’s-Hertogenbosch 1994)

Ch. Jeurgens en P.M.M. Klep, Informatieprocessen van de Bataafs-Franse overheid, 1795-1813 (Den Haag1995)

P. Emonts, A.Polat, H. van der Hert en Ch. Jeurgens (reds), Gurbetçi. Kayapinar, migrantendorp in Turkije (Dordrecht 2001)

‘Statistics as an instrument in the struggle against water, 1700-1850’ inP.M.M. Klep and Ida H. Stamhuis (eds), The statistical mind in a pre-statistical era: the Netherlands 1750-1850 (Amsterdam 2002) 299-320

‘Het weer in Rijnland. Beschrijven of meten: een wereld van verschil’ in Tijdschrift voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis 12 (2003) 79-88

‘The land where the water ends. Dordrecht, a Dutch town in the 17th century/El Pais donde termina el agua. Dordrecht, una ciudad Holandesa en el siglo XVII’ in: Masters of the Dutch Golden Age in Dordrecht/Maestros del siglo de oro Holandés en Dordrecht (Santiago de Chile 2003) 28-55
Work in progress
‘The other past: the memory of migrants and their representation in archives’