EPISODE · Mar 21, 2026 · 11 MIN

15. Obscene songs

from ECHOES - stories from four centuries of Groningen university · host ECHOES - a UKrant podcast

For hundreds of years, offences involving a student or professor were tried by the university’s own court. But what happens when the rector magnificus and a student fall out?'Obscene songs' is the seventh episode of the second season of the UKrant podcast Echoes. Christien Boomsma takes you back to 1617, the year Rector Cornelis Pijnacker clashed with a student who wrote obscene poems about his wife.**This episode was researched by Christien Boomsma and Klaas van Berkel. Sound and editing by Christien Boomsma. Voice is Tom Wilcox.Want to know more? Check out these articles and books (sadly, in Dutch)Paul Brood, Gerard van Krieken, Jan Spoelder, De wijde wereld van Cornelis Pijnacker (1590 - 1645) (Amsterdam, 2018)A.C.J. de Vrankrijker, Vier eeuwen Nederlandsch studentenleven (1939)Van der Ven, F. A. J. (1995). Enige opmerkingen over de academierechtspraak te Groningen: Een geval van niet-exclusieve gelding van het stellige recht. Groninger Opmerkingen en Mededelingen, XII, 70-115. http://rjh.ub.rug.nl/grom

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