Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns

Who is Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns?

Willem Fredrik Jacob Mörzer Bruyns, is a Dutch historian of navigational science, specializing in the history of navigational instruments. He rose to be Senior Curator of Navigation at the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum before his retirement in 2005. Since 1972, Mörzer Bruyns published several books and over a hundred articles in scholarly journals, on the history of navigation and navigational instruments, and on the exploration of the Dutch in the Arctic, in the nineteenth century. He wrote over fifty book reviews on these subjects in scholarly journals.