ABSTRACT
For a number of reasons, some also discussed in the introduction, there is a tendency to limit Baschwitz's significance to a purely local level (Amsterdam), or a national level (The Netherlands). But he also contributed decisively to the emergence of wider networks in the new field: first on a continental level, than on a global one. This remained largely invisible, also because it played out just before his retirement, during the process itself and even after it, under his successor on the main press chair. So there is reason to spell out what really happened.
