Open AccessBlack African Scholars in European Academia before 1800
Author(s) -
David de la Croix
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
repertorium eruditorum totius europae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2736-4119
DOI - 10.14428/rete.v2i0/black
Subject(s) - political science , period (music) , history , gender studies , sociology , art , aesthetics
How many members of European Universities and Academies originated from Sub-Saharan Africa during the Early Modern Period? Most people would say zero, and this is what I would have said a few years ago as well. Since I started collecting data on scholars and literati at European Universities and Academies, I had to revise my prior. Among 46,363 persons in my Repertorium today, there are three Black African scholars.