Michiel van Groesen

Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He specializes in European representations of the early modern world. His work at the intersection of textual and visual sources has resuled in three books: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590–1634), published in 2008, Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017) and An Ocean of Rumours: News and Information in the Atlantic World (2026).