Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers/Multilingual Challenge/Inspiration

This page lists possible topics as inspiration for participants. More inspiration might be found on the Dutch page.

Main

 * Teylers Museum
 * Teylers Oval Room
 * Teylers astronomical observatory (nl)
 * Teylers library
 * Teylers Fundatiehuis / Teylers Foundation House
 * Teylers Hofje / Teylers Almshouse
 * Teylers Stichting / Teylers Foundation
 * List of directors of Teylers Stichting
 * Teylers Eerste Genootschap / Teylers First Society
 * List of members of Teylers Eerste Genootschap
 * Teylers Tweede Genootschap / Teylers Second Society
 * List of members of Teylers Tweede Genootschap
 * Teylers Eerste Schilderijenzaal / Teylers First Painting Gallery
 * List of paintings in Teylers Eerste Schilderijenzaal
 * Verhandelingen van Teylers Eerste Genootschap / Proceedings of Teylers First Society
 * List of prize winners of Teylers Eerste Genootschap
 * Verhandelingen van Teylers Tweede Genootschap / Proceedings of Teylers Second Society
 * List of prize winners of Teylers Tweede Genootschap

People

 * Pieter Teyler (founder of the museum)
 * Leendert Viervant the Younger (1752 - 1801), architect of, amongst others, the Oval Room and the Teylers hofje
 * Martinus van Marum (1750 - 1837), first director of the Museum
 * Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda (1788 - 1867), Head of Teylers Palaeontological and Mineralogical Cabinet (1839 - 1864)
 * Hendrik van Borssum Buisman, portrait painter, father of Jan van Borssum Buisman, and curator of the museum
 * Eugène Dubois (1858 - 1940), the curator of Teylers Palaeontological and Mineralogical Cabinet (1899 -1928) who discovered the primitive upright Java Man
 * Wybrand Hendriks (1744 - 1831 ), painter and keeper of the Art Collections from 1785-1820.
 * Hendrik Lorentz( 1853 - 1928), curator of the Physics Cabinet from 1910-1928, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1902.
 * Tiberius Winkler(1822 - 1897), from 1864-1897
 * Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen (nl) (1822-1878) - Head of the Physics Cabinet at Teylers Museum (1864-1878) (watch out! There seem to be two relevant people with the name "Van der Willigen": also Adriaan van der Willigen ?)
 * Adriaan van der Willigen won the silver medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap in 1809 for his essay on the reason for the small number of history painters in the Netherlands ( De redenen van het klein getal der Nederlandsche historieschilders). For V. S. M. van der Willigen see http://www.teylersmuseum.eu/index.php?item=116&i_id=6366&lang=nl. Gjjanse (talk) 14:47, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That's odd! I just updated his page to say he won the gold medal in 1806 for the same essay, but together with Pieter Kikkert and not on his own. The winning essay was published, not won, in 1809 - See EJ van Himbergen, 'De prijsvragen van de twee genootschappen 1778-1978', in: 'Teyler' 1778-1978. Studies en bijdragen over Teylers Stichting naar aanleiding van de tweede eeuwfeest, Haarlem - Antwerp 1978, pp 37-55 Does the published version say silver? Jane (talk) 16:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Adriaan Fokker (1887 - 1972) - Physicist, musicologist, and curator of the Physics Cabinet at Teylers Museum, cousin of aircraft-builder Anthony Fokker, designed a 31-tone organ, founder of Stichting Nauwluisterendheid (i.e. the Close-Listening Foundation), which, as the Huygens-Fokker Foundation, now looks after the organ
 * Christian Ulrich (Viennese architect of the 1885 extensions and the main entrance of the Museum)
 * Ad van der Steur (nl)(architect from parts of the museum)
 * I'm quite unsure if this is the right person! I think you actually meant his grandfather Adrianus van der Steur who was architect in Haarlem? Please check the article again. I did translate though. effeietsanders 16:28, 1 March2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it should be Adrianus van der Steur (1836-1899), architect in Haarlem.Gjjanse (talk) 14:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hubert-Jan Henket (nl)(architect of the 1996 extensions)
 * Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, painter and first keeper of the Art Collections from 1778-1785
 * Gerrit-Jan Michaëlis, painter and keeper of the Art Collections from 1820-1856
 * Adrianus Johannes Ehnle, painter and keeper of the Art Collections from 1856-1863
 * Hendrik Jacobus Scholten, painter and keeper of the Art Collections from 1863-1907
 * Johannes Frederik Hulk junior, painter and keeper of the Art Collections from 1907-1913
 * Jacob Otten Husly, designer of the ornaments in the Oval Room.
 * Jaap Best, of Stichting Circusarchief Jaap Best, a circus archive in the Teylers

Directors of the Teylers Stichting

 * Jacobus Barnaart (1726-1780), director 1778 - 1780
 * Isaac Brand, director 1778-1782
 * Antoni Kuits, director 1778-1789
 * Gerard Hugaart, director 1778-1791
 * Willem van der Vlugt Sr., director 1778-1807
 * Adriaan van Zeebergh, director 1780-1824

Painters (with important parts of their work in the Teylers Museum)

 * Raphael
 * Michelangelo
 * Rembrandt
 * Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
 * Claude Lorrain Teylers owns a range of early Claude Lorrain drawings which were acquired back in 1790, a mere six years after the museum opened.
 * Andreas Schelfhout
 * Cornelis Springer (nl)
 * Hendrik Willem Mesdag
 * Jan Willem Pieneman
 * Anton Mauve
 * Jacob Maris
 * Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch
 * George Hendrik Breitner
 * Jozef Israëls
 * Isaac Israëls
 * Hague School (the school a big part of the collection is about)

Collections/Collectors
See above, but also owners of collections that have found their way into Teylers:
 * Print collectors
 * Coin collectors; The Holtzhey medalmakers, gold coins found in 1941: Stichting Roodenburg van Looy more info here
 * Fossil collectors
 * Boudewijn Buch
 * Odescalchi collection

Books

 * Hortus Eystettensis, one of several historical floregiums in the possesion of the library (now a redirect - needs its own article and note the British Museum also owns a copy)
 * Description de l'Égypte - a prestigious book about Egypt published in 23 volumes between 1809 and 1829
 * Birds of America, heavy, multi-volume book
 * Encyclopédie (Diderot and d’Alembert)
 * Encyclopédie Methodique
 * Ottens Atlas Maior

Natural history

 * Homo diluvii testis
 * Tiglian era - the museum has the largest collection of fossils from this sedimentary fossil-containing layer (part of the Pleistocene) located in Tegelen, in the province of Limburg
 * Mosasaurus
 * Archaeopteryx
 * Top of the Mont Blanc
 * Maquette of the Mont Blanc (200 year old maquette of the Mont Blanc)
 * Mammuthus primigenius, First mammoth skull found in the Netherlands in 1820.
 * Lügensteine
 * Kristalmodellen Rome de l'Isle. (title needs translation)
 * Kristalmodellen Haüy. (title needs translation)

Historical scientific instruments and teaching aids

 * Large electrostatic generator (Teylers)
 * Electrostatic generator
 * Leiden jar
 * coup de poing or Poing de Breguet (explosive detonator from Louis Charles Breguet
 * Lots of instruments in museums collection. Some examples of general descriptive articles:
 * Whirlwind machine
 * Euler organ
 * Gyroscopical balance
 * Gyroscope
 * Polytrope
 * Planimeter
 * Polar planimeter
 * Chemical balance
 * Slide rule
 * Pantograph
 * Heliograph
 * Vacuum pump
 * hydro electric generator
 * Phonautograph
 * Karthetometer
 * Chronometer
 * reversion pendulum
 * "contactbooglamp"
 * Combustion apparatus (Verbrandinstoestellen Van Marum naar Lavoisier).
 * Mechanica toestellen naar 's-Gravesande. (title needs translation)
 * Globe en astronomische modellen van Adams. (title needs translation)

More online information
Teylers Universe is dedicated to the first half century (1784-1826) of Teylers Museum: stories about the people who made Teylers Museum great: not just scientists, Directors and board members, but also famous visitors such as Napoleon Bonaparte and the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Also gives background information on the phenomena of eighteenth and nineteenth-century collecting, scientific experiment and charity. With many digital 18th-century primary sources.
 * teylersuniversum.nl (also available in English)
 * teylersmuseum.eu > collecties : collectiedatabase online (online collection database)
 * teylersmuseum.eu > collecties > personen (information about the important persons in dutch)
 * instrumenten.teylersmuseum.nl (also available in English). Extensive background information on the collection of 18th and 19th century scientific instruments. With downloadable descriptive catalogues (catalogues are not freely licensed!).