Spinozahuis
The Spinozahuis is a building in the center of The Hague on Paviljoensgracht 72-74 . It was built as a tenement house by the painter Jan van Goyen in 1646 and after his death in 1657 it went to Havik Steen, Jan Steen's father . In 1669 the painter Hendrik van der Spijck bought the house. He rented an apartment to the philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), who lived there from 1671 until his death, where he completed his important ethics .
The house remained in the possession of the van Spijk family until 1753, after which it had many owners. In 1926 it was bought by the Spinoza researcher Carl Gebhardt in order to set up the Sociëtas Spinozana . Today, the Vereniging het Spinozahuis has a library and a reading room in the house.
A plaque on the facade commemorates the philosopher, and there is also a statue of him near the house on the green strip of Paviljoensgracht.
The building is listed as a Rijksmonument . Documents on the house from 1945 to 1952 are in the archives of the Department of Archeology and Nature Conservation in the National Archives of the Ministry of Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (ocw).
literature
- Suchtelen, Guido van (ed.): Spinoza's sterfhuis aan de Paviljoensgracht. Levensbericht van een Haags monument 1646-1977 . JN Voorhoeve, The Hague 1977 (Dutch, 103 pages).
Web links
- Literature by and about Spinozahuis in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Website of the Vereniging Het Spinozahuis
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 23.6 " N , 4 ° 18 ′ 49.7" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article about the house on monumentenfondsdehaag.nl (Dutch)
- ↑ Spinoza House, The Hague. Vereniging het Spinozahuis.
- ↑ Entry as a monument. Retrieved July 17, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ 733. Het Spinozahuis te 's-Gravenhage concerning stucco. 1945-1952. In: Inventory van het archief van de Afdeling Oudheidkunde en Natuurbescherming en taakvoorgangers, (1910) 1923–1965 (1981) van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap. Archive inventory number: 2.14.73, Nationaal Archief, The Hague 2008. ( pdf )