Peter van der Krogt FSHD

Curriculum vitae

portrait Petrus Cornelis Jozef ('Peter') van der Krogt, born Delft 15 January 1956, studied physical geography at the University of Utrecht since 1974. After the 'kandidaatsexamen' (the first university examination) the main subject of his study became cartography, with the main interest in the history of cartography. In this second phase of his study he prepared as an undergraduate thesis a catalogue of globes made before 1850 preserved in collections in the Netherlands. The 'doctoraalexamen' (degree) was passed in 1981. He worked for four years (1982-1985) on his doctor's thesis for the Stichting voor Historisch Onderzoek  (Foundation for Historical Research) of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Dutch Organization for Pure Scientific Research) with as supervisor Professor Günter Schilder. The doctor's degree was received on 17 February 1989, the title of the thesis was Globi Neerlandici: De globeproduktie in de Nederlanden. An English edition of this thesis, included with a new section, a cartobibliography of all globes made in the Netherlands was published in 1993.

From 1985 up to early 1996 he had several free-lance and part-time jobs, but stayed attached to the Faculty of Geographical Sciences (now Faculty of Geo-sciences) of Utrecht University as part-timer or volunteer. On 1 February 1996 he got there a position as researcher/teacher in the the URU-Explokart research program for the History of Cartography. In September 2004 he succeeded professor Schilder als leader of URU-Explokart.

Since 1992 he is part time editor of map-historical and related subjects for HES & De Graaf Publishers.

Research

Research subject is the commercial cartography in the Netherlands (16th-18th century). The main topics are presently:

  1. Preparation and publication of Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, the bibliography of atlases published in the Netherlands from the 16th up to the 20th century. First volume (of ten) published in 1997
  2. Preparation and publication of an annotated catalogue of the Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem, in co-operation with Erlend de Groot of Nijmegen University, first volume (of six) published in 1996.

Functions and offices

Awards

2002: the Sir George Fordham Award for Cartobibliography. This award is triennially given by the Royal Geographical Society. The decision of the assessment panel was unanimous, and was based especially on the continuing work on the multi-volume new edition of Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici.

2005: The IMCoS-Helen Wallis Award. This award is given annually by the International Map Collector Society in recognition of the cartographic contribution of greatest merit and widest interest to map collectors world-wide.

2005: Volume III of Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici was nominated for the Fourteenth Award of the ILAB-LILA Prize for Bibliography.

2009: Appointed Fellow of the Society for the History of Discoveries.

Hobbies

(also very important): genealogy, history of Delft, toponymy, license plates, collecting all kinds of map ephemera (coins, stamps, license plates), and making websites (see overview here).

Address

Dr Peter van der Krogt,
Faculty of Geosciences
University of Utrecht,
Postbus 80.115,
3508 TC  UTRECHT, The Netherlands

Visiting address:
Willem C. van Unnikgebouw, Room 512,
Heidelberglaan 2,
De Uithof,
3584 CS UTRECHT, The Netherlands

tel. +31 30 253 2052;
fax +31 30 254 0604
E-mail: p.vanderkrogt(at)geo.uu.nl