Hendrik van Bleyswijk
Patronymic:
Ewouts
Antony's:
correspondent and Stadhuis colleague
Birth or Baptism date:
October 18, 1628
Death or Burial date:
August 20, 1703
Hendrik van Bleyswijk joined the Veertigraad in 1668. Magistrate 1669-1672. Mayor 1684, 1685, 1686, 1689, 1694, 1695, 1698, 1699
He was a bewinthebber of the VOC and curator of the Academie in Leiden.
Leeuwenhoek addressed five letters to him between December 1695 and February 1702.
In the late 1697 and 1698, Bleyswyck and Gottfried Leibniz exchanged letters, in four of which they discussed Leeuwenhoek.
