Werner Scheltjens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Werner Scheltjens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Werner |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheltjens |
| SIGNATURE | SCHELTJENS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5209-9052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The burden of complexity: Dealing with measurement and taxation in the Sound Toll registers – a response to Yrjö Kaukiainen
This paper replies to a research note outlining a method for the conversion of weights and measures in the Danish Sound Toll registers. Whereas Yrjö Kaukiainen argues that the use of values for Danish units of measurement is sufficient, Werner Scheltjens highlights the complexity of pre-modern weights and measures, and raises concerns about the simplification of the measurement and taxation procedures at the customs office in the Danish Sound
The Contribution of Historical Databases to the Current State of Digital Maritime History: Introduction
Maritime history can be broadly defined as an approach considering the sea as a dynamic agent of change. It takes into account economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental issues in the relation of human societies to the sea and examines the seas’ impact on societies. Maritime history, since the 1950s, has been an expanding field of historical research, now visible in the academic world through an international association (IMHA), nat…
Sound Toll Registers Online, 1497-1857: La base de données des registres du péage du Sund en ligne
Une vaste collaboration de quinze ans a permis de mettre à la disposition de tous, sous format électronique, les registres danois du péage du Sund, une source unique pour l’histoire maritime européenne qui couvre près de quatre siècles. L’article décrit l’ensemble du processus, depuis la création d’une base de données relationnelle jusqu’à la finalisation de la saisie des données dans le cadre d’un projet reposant sur des bénévoles, en passant pa…
French Entries in the “Hamburgische Waarenberechnungen: First Insights from a Collection of Commodity Calculations for Hamburg’s Trade in the Eighteenth Century
This paper analyses selected entries in the “Hamburgische Waarenberechnungen,” a collection of commodity calculations compiled, printed and published in Hamburg in 1772–1774, and comprising roughly 400 cost calculations for commodities shipped to and from the port of Hamburg. The paper focuses on the different cost items and their share in the total transportation cost for entries involving French ports. Following the structure of the commodity c…
Sound Toll Registers Online
In 2020, the University of Groningen and Tresoar, the Frisian Historical and Literary Center in Leeuwarden, completed the online database providing instant and free access to the complete Sound Toll Registers. This database, Sound Toll Registers Online (STRO), is already available to everyone at www.soundtoll.nl. Huygens ING is now taking over STRO from Tresoar and the University of Groningen to ensure its quality, accessibility and continuity
Tetradas: Dataset of Tonnage Estimates of Trade through the Danish Sound, 1670–1856
Tetradas is a dataset of tonnage estimates of trade through the Danish Sound from 1670 until 1856. This paper describes the method pursued for the realization of Tetradas and outlines the main stages of the first effort to date to homogenize, standardize and convert the data gathered in the electronic database of the project Sound Toll Registers Online ( www.soundtoll.nl ). Tetradas documents the main results of this endeavour so far and provides…
Peter Kramper, The Battle of the Standards. Messen, Zählen und Wiegen in Westeuropa 1660–1914. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 82.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2019
Baltic Drugs Traffic, 1650–1850. Sound Toll Registers Online as a Source for the Import of Exotic Medicines in the Baltic Sea Area
The analysis of the shipping of five key Asian, African and American drugs through the Danish Sound in the period 1650-1850 suggests that the Baltic Sea area absorbed exotic medicinal drugs in significant quantities only from the second half of the eighteenth century-at least about a century later than northwest Europe. This may be an indication that the area differed significantly from northwest Europe in the development of medical services. We …
Het ontstaan van een geïntegreerde maritieme transportruimte in de Lage Landen, ca. 1300-1800
Le développement d’un espace de transport maritime intégré aux Pays-Bas, ca. 1300-1800. Dans cet article est présentée une analyse descriptive à long terme de la géographie du secteur de transport maritime des Pays-Bas entre ca. 1300 et 1800. Les communautés des transporteurs maritimes aux Pays-Bas ont été identifiées à partir de sources primaires publiées ou inédites. Au total, environ 330 lieux ont été identifiés, localisés dans trois estuaires…
Navigocorpus at Work: A Brief Overview of the Potential of a Database
Sound Toll Registers Online: Introduction and First Research Examples
The Changing Geography of Demand for Dutch Maritime Transport in the Eighteenth Century
This paper studies the relationship between shipping, merchant business and product supply and demand from an economic-geographical perspective. The case study of grain transportation in the eighteenth century shows that it is established that structural changes in supply and demand led to the emergence of new transportation routes, provoking a shift from a bilateral trade pattern to a diversified pattern involving many locations, none of which w…
The Influence of Spatial Change on Operational Strategies in Early Modern Dutch Shipping: A Case Study of Dutch Shipping in the Gulf of Finland and Archangel, 1703–1740
A fundamental discrepancy between neoclassical and institutional research approaches lies at the core of contrasting results in historical studies about maritime shipping and trade. However, there is one point on which both contrasting approaches agree: both of them see maritime shipping as a spin-off effect and even more often as an illustration of trade. Thus, the mere fact that maritime transportation is an economic activity in its own right i…
Navigocorpus: A Database for Shipping Information – A Methodological and Technical Introduction
International audience
Navigocorpus: A Database for Shipping Information – A Methodological and Technical Introduction
International audience
Sound Toll Registers Online: Introduction and First Research Examples
Baltic Drugs Traffic, 1650–1850. Sound Toll Registers Online as a Source for the Import of Exotic Medicines in the Baltic Sea Area
The analysis of the shipping of five key Asian, African and American drugs through the Danish Sound in the period 1650-1850 suggests that the Baltic Sea area absorbed exotic medicinal drugs in significant quantities only from the second half of the eighteenth century-at least about a century later than northwest Europe. This may be an indication that the area differed significantly from northwest Europe in the development of medical services. We …
The Influence of Spatial Change on Operational Strategies in Early Modern Dutch Shipping: A Case Study of Dutch Shipping in the Gulf of Finland and Archangel, 1703–1740
A fundamental discrepancy between neoclassical and institutional research approaches lies at the core of contrasting results in historical studies about maritime shipping and trade. However, there is one point on which both contrasting approaches agree: both of them see maritime shipping as a spin-off effect and even more often as an illustration of trade. Thus, the mere fact that maritime transportation is an economic activity in its own right i…
Navigocorpus: A Database for Shipping Information – A Methodological and Technical Introduction
International audience
Navigocorpus at Work: A Brief Overview of the Potential of a Database
Sound Toll Registers Online: Introduction and First Research Examples
The Changing Geography of Demand for Dutch Maritime Transport in the Eighteenth Century
This paper studies the relationship between shipping, merchant business and product supply and demand from an economic-geographical perspective. The case study of grain transportation in the eighteenth century shows that it is established that structural changes in supply and demand led to the emergence of new transportation routes, provoking a shift from a bilateral trade pattern to a diversified pattern involving many locations, none of which w…
Het ontstaan van een geïntegreerde maritieme transportruimte in de Lage Landen, ca. 1300-1800
Le développement d’un espace de transport maritime intégré aux Pays-Bas, ca. 1300-1800. Dans cet article est présentée une analyse descriptive à long terme de la géographie du secteur de transport maritime des Pays-Bas entre ca. 1300 et 1800. Les communautés des transporteurs maritimes aux Pays-Bas ont été identifiées à partir de sources primaires publiées ou inédites. Au total, environ 330 lieux ont été identifiés, localisés dans trois estuaires…
Baltic Drugs Traffic, 1650–1850. Sound Toll Registers Online as a Source for the Import of Exotic Medicines in the Baltic Sea Area
The analysis of the shipping of five key Asian, African and American drugs through the Danish Sound in the period 1650-1850 suggests that the Baltic Sea area absorbed exotic medicinal drugs in significant quantities only from the second half of the eighteenth century-at least about a century later than northwest Europe. This may be an indication that the area differed significantly from northwest Europe in the development of medical services. We …
Peter Kramper, The Battle of the Standards. Messen, Zählen und Wiegen in Westeuropa 1660–1914. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 82.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2019
Sound Toll Registers Online
In 2020, the University of Groningen and Tresoar, the Frisian Historical and Literary Center in Leeuwarden, completed the online database providing instant and free access to the complete Sound Toll Registers. This database, Sound Toll Registers Online (STRO), is already available to everyone at www.soundtoll.nl. Huygens ING is now taking over STRO from Tresoar and the University of Groningen to ensure its quality, accessibility and continuity
Tetradas: Dataset of Tonnage Estimates of Trade through the Danish Sound, 1670–1856
Tetradas is a dataset of tonnage estimates of trade through the Danish Sound from 1670 until 1856. This paper describes the method pursued for the realization of Tetradas and outlines the main stages of the first effort to date to homogenize, standardize and convert the data gathered in the electronic database of the project Sound Toll Registers Online ( www.soundtoll.nl ). Tetradas documents the main results of this endeavour so far and provides…
French Entries in the “Hamburgische Waarenberechnungen: First Insights from a Collection of Commodity Calculations for Hamburg’s Trade in the Eighteenth Century
This paper analyses selected entries in the “Hamburgische Waarenberechnungen,” a collection of commodity calculations compiled, printed and published in Hamburg in 1772–1774, and comprising roughly 400 cost calculations for commodities shipped to and from the port of Hamburg. The paper focuses on the different cost items and their share in the total transportation cost for entries involving French ports. Following the structure of the commodity c…
The Contribution of Historical Databases to the Current State of Digital Maritime History: Introduction
Maritime history can be broadly defined as an approach considering the sea as a dynamic agent of change. It takes into account economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental issues in the relation of human societies to the sea and examines the seas’ impact on societies. Maritime history, since the 1950s, has been an expanding field of historical research, now visible in the academic world through an international association (IMHA), nat…
Sound Toll Registers Online, 1497-1857: La base de données des registres du péage du Sund en ligne
Une vaste collaboration de quinze ans a permis de mettre à la disposition de tous, sous format électronique, les registres danois du péage du Sund, une source unique pour l’histoire maritime européenne qui couvre près de quatre siècles. L’article décrit l’ensemble du processus, depuis la création d’une base de données relationnelle jusqu’à la finalisation de la saisie des données dans le cadre d’un projet reposant sur des bénévoles, en passant pa…
The burden of complexity: Dealing with measurement and taxation in the Sound Toll registers – a response to Yrjö Kaukiainen
This paper replies to a research note outlining a method for the conversion of weights and measures in the Danish Sound Toll registers. Whereas Yrjö Kaukiainen argues that the use of values for Danish units of measurement is sufficient, Werner Scheltjens highlights the complexity of pre-modern weights and measures, and raises concerns about the simplification of the measurement and taxation procedures at the customs office in the Danish Sound
Computer Science (8 works) · Toll (6 works) · Database (5 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sound (geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)