Curriculum vitae

Leen Spruit

30.06.1954    born in Krimpen aan den IJssel (Netherlands), as son of Koos Spruit and Marie Werksma.

12.10.1979     master in theology, cum laude (history of christianity)

27.11.1981     master in philosophy, cum laude (history of philosophy)

1985-88        research fellow Dutch Council of Research at the University of Amsterdam

since 1986    lecturer Dutch language and literature at “La Sapienza” University Rome.

25.09.1987   PhD philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, cum laude.

30.09.1988  receives premium of “Prins Bernhard Fonds” for his dissertation
on the epistemological thought of Giordano Bruno, assigned by the Dutch Academy of Sciences (Haarlem).

1989-92        research fellow Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences at Utrecht University.

1991-92         visiting professor University of Trieste.

since 1996    member of research group “Catholic Church and Modern Science.”
since 2010    associate researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
20.09.2012   receives the Radboud Science Award
2014-15         KNAW visiting professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen
01.11.2016    appointed professor of early modern intellectual history at the Radboud University