This year, 2020, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands celebrates its 80th birthday. This paper describes the history of the department since its founding in early 1940, just before the start of World War II in the Netherlands, until present day. The paper will highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.

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80 Years of Aerospace Engineering Education in the Netherlands

Recommended Citation: Frans Grijzenhout, “Between Memory and Amnesia: The Posthumous Portraits of Johan and Cornelis de Witt” JHNA 7:1 (Winter 2015), DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2015.7.1.4 Available at http://www.jhna.org/index.php/past-issues/vol-7-1-2015/306-frans-grijzenhout Published by Historians of Netherlandish Art: http://www.hnanews.org/ Terms of Use: http://www.jhna.org/index.php/terms-of-use Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. This is a revised PDF that may contain different page numbers from the previous version. Use electronic searching to locate passages. This PDF provides paragraph numbers as well as page numbers for citation purposes. ISSN: 1949-9833 Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

Between Memory and Amnesia: The Posthumous Portraits of Johan and

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Between memory and amnesia: the posthumous portraits of Johan and Cornelis de Witt

From republican to liberal. The image of Johan de Witt during the years of revolution (1757-1840) In the fateful year of 1672, Johan and Cornelis de Witt were brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague that had sympathies with the House of Orange. The question is raised: was it the case, one hundred years later in the eighteenth century, that the underlying political motive behind the death of the de Witt brothers led to them being used by a disparate group of political admirers, from republicans to patriots and Bataven, in their own struggle against the ancien regime and stadholder of the time? The answer is simple but clear: no it wasn’t. The republicans defended Johan de Witt against orangeist attacks, but the patriots in the late 1780s were unimpressed with the Grand Pensionary and his brother because of their aristocratic background. During the French occupation of the Netherlands opinions about the de Witt brothers changed and they were suddenly held in great esteem by both patriots and liberals alike. The massacres committed by ordinary citizens during the revolution in France greatly influenced public opinion about Johan and Cornelis. From that time onwards, they were regarded as victims of the angry masses and their fate came to symbolise the dangers of direct democracy.

J. de Haan

Papers

Van staatsgezind tot liberaal. De beeldvorming over Johan de Witt in de revolutietijd (1757-1840)

M. Dierikx, Uit de lucht gegrepen. Fokker als Nederlandse droom, 1945-1996