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Educated as a lawyer and legal historian, Eric Ketelaar received his LLM (1967) and LLD (cum laude) degrees from Leiden University. His previous functions were Assistant Lecturer of Legal History at Leiden University, Secretary of the Archives Council, Director of the Dutch State School of Archivists, and Assistant to the General State Archivist. He was General State Archivist (National Archivist) of the Netherlands from 1989-1997. Eric Ketelaar was 1992-2002 part-time Professor of Archivistics in the Department of History of the University of Leiden. He wrote some 400 articles in Dutch, English, French and German (some of which were translated into other languages) and he wrote or co-authored several books.