Arthur der Weduwen is a Dutch historian and writer.
His work primarily focuses on the Dutch Republic, the history of the book and the emergence of the newspaper.
[2] His book Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700, published in 2017 in two volumes, provided the first complete survey of newspapers published in the Low Countries at the beginning of serial news publication.
The book was well received by academics,[3][4] and awarded a Menno Hertzberger Prize in 2019.
[5] Der Weduwen has collaborated with Andrew Pettegree on a number of books about the publishing industry in the Netherlands in the Dutch Golden Age.