Trijntje Keever

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Trijntje Keever, oil painting (1633)

Trijntje Keever (born April 16, 1616 in Edam , † July 2, 1633 in Veere ) is considered to be the largest female person in the world ever measured. The Dutch woman , who was nicknamed De Groote Meid ( German  The Big Girl ), measured nine Amsterdam feet , the equivalent of 2.55 meters , according to contemporary reports in the year of her death .

Life

Trijntje Keever was 1616 as a daughter of the skipper Cornelis Keever and the servant born Anna Pouwels in Edam. Due to an acromegaly , she was already six feet tall at the age of nine. Her parents regularly presented Trijntje to the public at fairs in order to earn some extra money.

On June 30, 1625, it is recorded that Frederick V , the former King of Bohemia , his wife Elisabeth Stuart and Countess Amalie zu Solms-Braunfels stayed in Edam. During their stay, the Mayor of Edam showed them Trijntje as a sight.

Trijntje Keever died at the age of 17 near Veere in the Dutch province of Zeeland . The most likely cause of death is a malignant tumor . The body was brought back to Edam and buried on July 7, 1633 in the town church.

Others

In Edams Museum a life-size oil paintings Keevers is issued from the year 1633, another exhibit are their original shoes with the shoe size 55. The painting is part of a series of images which De Drie Mirakelen van Edam ( German  The three wonders of Edam is) called. The other two pictures show Pieter Dircks, called Langebaard , who wore a beard that was 2.50 meters long, and Jan Claes, called Dikke Kastelein , a 455-pound man. Originally a picture of an alleged mermaid who was caught near the municipality of Purmer is said to have belonged to this series , but this painting is considered lost. The three remaining paintings are shown in the two buildings of the Edams Museum: Dircks and Claes hang in the Steenen Coopmanshuys , an old merchant's house, the picture by Keever is exhibited in the old town hall.

The Dutch writer Lydia Rood published the children's book Meisje aan de ketting ( German  about girl on a chain ) in 2007 , which is about Trijntje Keever.

literature

  • Francis Allan: De stad Edam en hare geschiedenis. P. de Boer, Edam 1857, p. 42 f. (Dutch, limited preview in Google Book search)

See also

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Keever's birthday has not been conclusively secured historically, some sources give April 10 or 16.
  2. ↑ Different sources give their measured height deviating with 2.54 meters or 2.60 meters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Enne Koops: Trijntje Keever (1616–1633) - Mogelijk de langste vrouw ooit. Historiek, accessed February 7, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b Mark Zegeling: 400th Anniversary of the tallest woman ever lived. Kingdom by the Sea, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ Robin Pascoe, Christopher Catling (eds.): Amsterdam . DK Eyewitness Travel, 2016, ISBN 978-0-241-20373-6 , pp. 171 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ De Drie Miracles van Edam. Edams Museum, accessed February 19, 2019 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Meisje aan de ketting. Historical novels, accessed February 7, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Keever, Trijntje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Groote Meid; The big girl (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION greatest woman in the world ever measured
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Edam
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1633
Place of death Veere