Marie Antoinette Petronella Meilink-Roelofsz
Curriculum vitae
| 1905 | born in The Hague on December 6 |
| … | HBS, The Hague |
| 1926-1928 | attended lectures as auditor by among others J. Huizinga (general history), Leiden |
| 1929 | secondary school teaching certificate in history (MO akte) |
| 1930-1937 | voluntary work in the General State Archives (Algemeen Rijksarchief, ARA), The Hague |
| 1937-1946 | adjunct administrative assistant ARA, first section (General State Archives and the archives of the East and West India Companies), The Hague |
| 1946-1964 | promotion to scientific assistant archivist, first class, ARA |
| 1947-1951 | BA and MA examinations in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam (on the basis of her secondary school teaching certificate and special permission of the Minister) |
| 1962 | PhD under the supervision of Jan Romein, University of Amsterdam |
| 1964-1970 | head of the General State Archives |
| 1970-1976 | ‘bijzonder’ professor in the History of Western European Overseas Expansion (chair Leidsch Universiteitsfonds), Leiden University |
| 1988 | died in The Hague on September 23 |
Special activities and positions
- Corresponding member of the Indian Historical Records Commision, 1959-1962
- Honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), 1976-1988
Selected publications on South Asia
1942 “Een Nederlander in Engelschen dienst op de voor-Indische kust.” Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 57:
1943 De vestiging der Nederlanders ter kuste Malabar, ‘s-Gravenhage (Verhandelingen KITLV 4).
1948 Review of: M.W. Jurriaanse, Catalogue of the archives of the Dutch Central Government of Coastal Ceylon, 1640-1796, Colombo 1943. Nederlands Archievenblad 52: 153-155.
1962 Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and about 1630, ʹs-Gravenhage. – PhD thesis Amsterdam; Photomechanical reprint The Hague 1969.
1965 & M.P.H. Roessingh (comp.), Ceylon-Nederland in het verleden, 1602-1796: tentoonstelling in het Algemeen Rijksarchief, ‘s-Gravenhage, mei-sept. 1965, ’s-Gravenhage.
1966 “Een tentoonstelling Ceylon-Nederland in het verleden, 1602-1796.” Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Oudheidkundige Bond 65,2: 48-56.
1967 “Heert Terpstra (Stiens, 13 december 1884 – Hilversum, 24 december 1964).” Jaarboek MNL te Leiden 1965-1966: 124-132.
1968 “Aspects of Dutch colonial development in Asia in the seventeenth century.” In: J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann (eds), Britain and the Netherlands in Europe and Asia, London.
1970 Van geheim tot openbaar: een historiografische verkenning, Leiden. – inaugural lecture.
1972 “The Dutch East India Company’s ports of call.” Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l’Histoire Comparative des Institutions = Transactions of the Jean Bodin Society for Comparative Institutional History 30: 171-196.
– Review of: O. Feldbaek, India trade under the Danish flag, 1772-1808, Lund 1969. JESHO 14: 97-99.
1973 Review of: P. Nightingale, Trade and empire in Western India, 1784-1806, Cambridge 1970. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 86: 457-459.
– Review of: S.C. Ghosh, The social condition of the British community in Bengal, 1757-1800, Leiden 1970. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 86: 620-622.
1976 Editor of: De VOC in Azië, Bussum.
– “Een vergelijkend onderzoek van bestuur en handel der Nederlandse en Engelse handelscompagnieën op Azië in de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw.” Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 91. – English translation in 1988, pp. 430-453.
1979 “De Europese expansie in Azië: enkele beschouwingen naar aanleiding van Holden Furbers Rival empires of trade in the orient, 1600-1800.” BTLV 135,4: 403-443.
1988 Et al. (eds), Dutch authors on Asian history: a selection of Dutch historiography on the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Dordrecht-Providence.