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Maurits Ebben studied history at Leiden University and l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. After researching and lecturing in Colombia (South America) and Mexico he has been engaged since 1992 as lecturer at the Institute for History of Leiden University. His dissertation concerns a study of the financing of the Spanish effort by Portuguese bankers during the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) with the Dutch: Zilver, brood en kogels voor de koning.Kredietverlening door Portugese bankiers aan de Spaanse kroon, 1621-1665 (Leiden 1996). Maurits Ebben teaches Dutch early modern history and is interested in the external relations of the Dutch Republic, particularly with the Iberian world.