Peter Jan Margry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Jan Margry

Dutch historian

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1956

Place of Birth: Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Peter Jan Margry (born April 6, 1956) is a Dutch historian and European ethnologist who works at the University of Amsterdam and, since 1993, also at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences research center Meertens Institute in the Netherlands.
Previously, he worked in The Hague and Den Bosch where he held positions as archivist-researcher, historian and archival inspector successively at the Dutch National Archives, the Court of Audit (Netherlands) and the Province of North-Brabant.
During the 1990’s he was also active as a consultant on document heritage, working in Suriname and Papua (Indonesia).