Beschryving der Stadt Delft

Author:
Boitet, R.
Publisher:
Delft: Boitet
Year:
1729

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The first version appeared in 1667, written by Dirck van Bleyswijk, then in his mid-twenties. In 1729, publisher Reinier Boitet issued an update of Bleiswijk's work. He reused the plates and De Ram's 1560 map. He included more biographies, including Karel van Mander and Arnold Houbraken's commentaries on Delft painters and the earliest biographical sketch of Leeuwenhoek.

Chapter III is the best source of names and dates of people appointed to city offices.

Chapter V has similar information for appointments to posts related to religion and social welfare.

Chapter XIV, pp 765-770, has a biography of Leeuwenhoek that is the only basis for several details about his life.

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1667 Bleyswijck, D. van Beschryvinge der Stadt Delft
1985 Ett, H. Reinier Boitet en zijn tijd
Related events:
Date Event
December 20, 1417 Countess Jacoba issued a charter for management of Delft's administrative and financial affairs.
September 7, 1445 Duke Philip of Burgundy issued a charter for Delft city fathers to appoint the first city council.
January 1, 1555 great great-grandfather Jan Jacobs Hogenhouk (1539-1586) appointed magistrate in 1555-1557, 1559, 1561-1564
January 1, 1560 great great-grandfather Jan Jacobs Hogenhouk (1539-1586) appointed to Veertigraad, served 1560-1586
November 10, 1561 great great-grandfather Jan Jacobs Hogenhouk (1539-1586) appointed church warden, Nieuwe Kerk
November 10, 1571 great-grandfather Sebastian Cornelis van den Berch (-1605) appointed church warden, Nieuwe Kerk
January 1, 1573 great great-grandfather Jan Jacobs Hogenhouk (1539-1586) appointed mayor
January 1, 1575 great-grandfather's nephew Claes Hendriks Verburch appointed to Veertigraad, served 1575-1609
January 1, 1576 great great-uncle Jacob Ewouts van der Dussen (1530-1599) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1579 great- great-uncle Jacob Adriaens van der Dussen (1546-1608) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1579 great-grandfather Sebastian Cornelis van den Berch (-1605) appointed to Veertigraad, served 1579-1605
January 1, 1581 great great-uncle Maerten Jans Hogenhouck (1550-1613) appointed magistrate in 1581, 1582, 1583, 1596
January 1, 1582 great great-uncle Gerrit Jans van der Eyck appointed to Veertigraad, served 1582-1620
January 1, 1584 great-grandfather Sebastian Cornelis van den Berch (-1605) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1586 great great-uncle Maerten Jans Hogenhouck (1550-1613) appointed to Veertigraad, served 1586-1613
January 1, 1588 great great-uncle Gerrit Jans van der Eyck (1550?-1620) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1592 great great-uncle Gerrit Jans van der Eyck (1550?-1620) appointed mayor
January 1, 1598 great great-uncle Maerten Jans Hogenhouck (1550-1613) appointed mayor in 1598
January 1, 1603 great-grandfather Sebastian Cornelis van den Berch (-1605) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1604 cousin Ewout Jacobs van der Dussen (1574-1653) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1610 grandfather Jacob Sebastians van den Berch (1566-1615) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1613 cousin Adriaan Maertens Hogenhouck (-1637) appointed to Veertigraad
January 5, 1613 grandfather Jacob Sebastians van den Berch (1566-1615) appointed Meester van Charitaten
January 1, 1614 cousin Adriaan Maertens Hogenhouck (-1637) appointed magistrate
January 11, 1614 grandfather Jacob Sebastians van den Berch (1566-1615) appointed warden of Oude Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk
January 1, 1618 cousin Jacob Maertens Hogenhouck (-1638) appointed to Veertigraad
September 24, 1618 Delft Veertigraad purged of 14 Arminians by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
January 1, 1622 cousin Jacob Maertens Hogenhouck (-1638) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1625 great-uncle Maarten Sebastians van den Berch (-1638) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1638 cousin Abraham Maertens Hogenhouck (1580-1641) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1639 cousin Abraham Maertens Hogenhouck (1580-1641) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1641 Began attending school in Warmond
January 1, 1641 cousin Cornelis Maertens Hogenhouck (-1656) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1643 cousin Pieter Abrahams Hogenhouck appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1645 cousin Cornelis Maertens Hogenhouck (-1656) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1646 Apprenticed with his uncle in Benthuizen
January 1, 1648 Apprenticed at 16 in Amsterdam to Scottish linen merchant William Davidson
December 21, 1650 In 2nd stadthouderless period, Delft granted charter for an independent Veertigraad
January 1, 1655 cousin Abraham's son Pieter Abrahams Hogenhouck (-1679) appointed magistrate
January 1, 1669 cousin Pieter Abrahams Hogenhouck (-1679) appointed mayor in 1669-1673, 1677
October 30, 1679 cousin Pieter Abrahams Hogenhouck buried
January 1, 1681 Sat for Cornelis de Man's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. 's Gravezande
January 6, 1714 cousin Maarten Pieters Hogenhouck appointed church warden, Oude Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk
August 25, 1723 Requested on his deathbed that his friend Johannes Hoogvliet translate his final two letters into Latin
January 1, 1729 Reinier Boitet's Beschryving der Stadt Delft published; first biography of Leeuwenhoek
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