Cornelis Hooft

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Cornelis Hooft

Cornelis Hooft (* 1547 in Amsterdam ; † 1627 ibid) was an important Amsterdam city regent at the beginning of the Golden Age , who came from the patrician family of the Hooft .

Life

Cornelis Hooft was the son of the trader Pieter Willemsz Hooft. When Cornelis returned to the Netherlands from Königsberg in 1574 , he first established himself as a trader in Hoorn. In 1578 Hooft returned to Amsterdam, and from there started a flourishing Baltic trade .

Cornelis Hooft was elected a member of the Amsterdam city government in 1584, whose chair he was first appointed in 1588. In the years before and after the turn of the century, Hooft was the most powerful Amsterdam ruler, he was appointed mayor a total of 12 times. Under his reign the city of Amsterdam was expanded three times; she experienced the last necessary impulses for her leadership position in the republic, which she achieved in the middle of the 17th century. Outside of his mighty city, Hooft was active at the provincial level, he was a delegate of the states of Holland , and an important member of the Dutch States General .

Politically, Hooft was on the side of the republican regents and was therefore against an increase in power of the Orange governors , whose desired dignity of Holland he was able to prevent. In 1618 - the year in which Holland's former council pensioner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was judged - he was ousted from politics on the initiative of governor Moritz von Orange and the powerful regent Reinier Pauw together with Jakob de Graeff Dircksz .

His son, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft , made a great impact on Dutch literature as a poet, and his niece, Catharina, was married to Cornelis de Graeff .

literature

  • SAC Dudok van Heel: De Familie van Pieter Cornelisz Hooft in Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie . 1981 (part 35)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hooft's biography on the DBNL (nl)
  2. ↑ Jacob de Graeff's biography on the DBNL (nl)
predecessor Office successor
- Regent and Mayor of Amsterdam
1588–1610 		Reinier Pauw
personal data
SURNAME Hooft, Cornelis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hooft, Cornelis Pieterszoon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 1627
Place of death Amsterdam