Pieter Jansz Hooft

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Attributed to Pieter Jansz Hooft (1619), Michiel van Mierevelt
Attributed to Gertruid Overlander (1619), Mierevelt

Pieter Jansz Hooft (* 1574 / 1575 in Amsterdam , † January 14, 1636 ibid) who came from aristocratic family Hooft , which appears as a commercially active family to one of the major Dutch could emerge families of the 17th and 18th centuries.

family

Pieter's parents were Jan Pietersz Hooft (1543-1602) and Geertruid Lons, one of his uncles was Cornelis Hooft , and his son, knight Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, was his cousin. He was married to Gertruid Overlander (1577-1653), a sister of Ritter Volkert Overlander . Pieters sister Geertruid Jansdr Hooft (1578-1636) was married to the same. His daughter Catharina Hooft married Cornelis de Graeff . Frans Banning Cocq , who entered art history as the captain of Rembrandt's Night Watch , and the cartographer Joan Blaeu were among Hooft's close relatives .

Hooft studied medicine and chemistry at the University of Leiden with his nephew Pieter Cornelisz Hooft . In 1630 and 1631 he was also named as councilor and alderman in the Amsterdam government . Hooft also appeared as Hoofdingeland van de Purmer (in the Netherlands this denotes the highest level of dike management ). He was also one of the curators and teachers at the Latin School in Amsterdam.

Hooft and the perpetual motion machine

Pieter Hooft ran a chemical laboratory together with his friend Jakob Dircksz de Graeff . There the two "leisure finders" invented a perpetual motion machine , a machine that moves on its own. This invention was made by Cornelis Drebbel at the court of the English Stuart -King James I presented. Drebbel passed the invention off as his own work; But when the queen's carelessness broke the machine, Drebbel was unable to repair it. Due to the carelessness of one of his descendants, the unfunctional remains of the machine were also lost.

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geslacht Hooft ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / d-compu.dyndns.org
  2. ↑ Stamboomdelen - Hooft
  3. ↑ Beeckman - 1622 (C. de Waard: Journal tenu par Isaac Beeckman de 1604 à 1634 ) (nl)
  4. ↑ PC Hooft Family Tree (nl)
  5. ↑ DBNL. PC Hooft: De briefwisseling van Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft . (nl)
  6. ↑ Het Huis te Ilpendam en deszelfs voornaamste Bezitters on the DBNL (nl)
  7. ↑ Biography of Jakob de Graeff in the DBNL (nl)
personal data
SURNAME Hooft, Pieter Jansz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1574 or 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Spanish Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1636
Place of death Amsterdam , Republic of the Seven United Netherlands