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168 Chapter 5. Times of trouble. Taking a stand Boxhorn’s publications proof that seventeenth-century Dutch scholars did not lock themselves up in an ivory tower. Sometimes they climbed down the stairs to meet the man in the street and, if only for a short period of time, to build a bridge between the lecture hall and the outside world. See chapter 3, and Otterspeer, Het bolwerk van de vrijheid, pp. 320-21.
Chapter 6 New tidings In the Oratio panegyrica de Belgarum pace Boxhorn had expressed the hope that the whole of Europe would soon be at peace. In a true Erasmian spirit Boxhorn had tried to strengthen his plea for a European-wide peace with an appeal to the humanity ‘which binds us with [our fellow] men, or with those of the Christian name’. 1 This European brotherhood of men was not solely confined to the Christian faith or geographic boundaries. Boxhorn’s personal appeal to Louis XIV shows that the bond between the different European peoples (Europeae gentes) also had a strong historical component; the French and the Germans were brothers because they had the same common ancestors. 2 Yet despite their common descent, the peoples of Europe could not help fighting among each other. At the time of his death Boxhorn’s Dutch compatriots were at war with the English, while the Spaniards and the French were still embroiled in a bitter struggle for the premier place in Europe. In what would be the last stage of his life the common ancestry of the European peoples became one of Boxhorn’s most important research subjects. Boxhorn conducted this research along linguistics lines; by comparing the European languages with each other he hoped to find evidence for his thesis that most, if not all European peoples descended from the same common ancestors and had once all spoken the same language. It is for the works resulting from this endeavour that Boxhorn is now most renowned. At the same time, during the last years of his life academic life at Leiden University became invested by the scholarly dispute that had erupted over the ‘new’ and ‘heretical’ ideas of the French philosopher René Descartes. Although it seems that no positive link can be made between the two, there is a connection between Boxhorn’s linguistic enterprises and ‘the first Cartesian 1 Boxhorn, “Oratio panegyrica de Belgarum pace”, p. 127. ‘Denique non hominum tantum, quibuscum humanitas nos conjungit, aut Christiani nominis, aut sociorum, foederatorum, vicinorum, quae velut propinquitatum cognationumque inter gentes sunt vocabula, sed Belgarum etiam caussa, qui neque felices videri sibi possunt, si sint soli, si soli famulantes votis & voluptatibus suis habeant hanc rerum secundarum & pacis tranquillitatem.’ 2 Ibidem, pp. 129-30. ‘Vt Ludovici decimi quarti, Galliarum Regis Christianissimi, quanquam longe lateque triumphalem adolescentiam, commendent tamen praecipue expleta tot senum, tot adultorum pro pace desideria ac vota, primi omnium ac nobilissimi triumphi … per Francorum, qui è gremio Germaniae olim progressi in Gallia sedes posuere, per Caroli Magni, ex se orti, & conjuncti in Gallia Germaniaque florentissimi quondam ejus imperii, memoriam.’
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