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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Related sources:

Year	Author	Title
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-grandfather Sebastian Cornelis van den Berch (-1605) appointed to Veertigraad, served 1579-1605
January 1, 1579	great- great-uncle Jacob Adriaens van der Dussen (1546-1608) appointed to Veertigraad
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	cousin Cornelis Maertens Hogenhouck (-1656) appointed to Veertigraad
January 1, 1641	Began attending school in Warmond
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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