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    Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft (1547 – 1627 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch statesman and Amsterdam regent during the Golden Age. Hooft Was a member of the patrician...
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  • Hooft or 't Hooft is a Dutch surname meaning "(the) head" (hoofd in modern Dutch). Notable people with the surname include: Hooft Cornelis Hooft (1547–1627)...
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    family and son of burgomaster (mayor) Cornelis Hooft. He was also uncle to statesmen and burgomasters Cornelis and Andries de Graeff. In 1598, in preparation...
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    was a nephew of the Amsterdam burgomaster Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft and related to the renowned poet P. C. Hooft of the Muiderslot, a wealthy patrician....
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    poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft as one of his uncles, the influential Amsterdam burgomasters and statesmen Andries, Cornelis, Jan Bicker who were his cousins...
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    Amsterdam regent Andries de Graeff, Amsterdam regent Cornelis de Graeff, Amsterdam regent Catharina Hooft, woman of the Dutch golden age Pieter Lastman, painter...
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  • was purged of Oldenbarnevelt supporters; Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and Cornelis Hooft fell victim to this action. In 1618–1619 the Synod of Dordrecht, after...
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    Willem Hooft Johan de Witt Jr. (1662–1701), secretary of the city of Dordrecht; married to Wilhelmina de Witt, the daughter of his uncle Cornelis de Witt...
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    family that counted many burgemeesters, like Cornelis Hooft and the poet and statesman Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. He first married Anna Adriana Smissaert...
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    mercy. Important municipal regents such as Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and Cornelis Hooft from Amsterdam were temporarily removed from office by Moritz' powerful...
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    The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century...
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    of the True Freedom, husband of Wendela Bicker, sister of Cornelis' mother Jacoba. Cornelis de Graeff was a Canon of St. Pieter at Utrecht. Most of the...
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    the less important family, and was related to Amsterdam burgomaster Cornelis Hooft. Deviating from the tradition according to which, as the first-born...
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    – 1666), merchant Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen (1537 – 1637), merchant Cornelis Hooft (1547 – 1627), mayor and merchant Walewijn van der Veen (1617-1669)...
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    Jansdr Hooft (1578-1636), daughter of Jan Pietersz Hooft (1543-1602) and Geertruid Lons. Her relatives included the Amsterdam burgomaster Cornelis Hooft, her...
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  • Dutch physician, physicist J. H. van 't Hoff, a Dutch chemist Gerardus 't Hooft, a Dutch physicist Tjalling Koopmans, a Dutch-American mathematician, physicist...
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    Cornelis Bonne (3 October 1890 – 25 April 1948) was a Dutch physician, pathologist and malariologist who worked in Dutch colonies in Surinam and Java....
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    1601–1602, 1604–1605, 1607–1608, 1610) – Cornelis Pieters Hooft (1547–1626) (1589–1590, 1593) – Cornelis Florisz (1590, 1593, 1595, 1599–1600) – Balthazar...
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    Cornelis Verhoeven (2 February 1928 – 11 June 2001) was a Dutch philosopher and writer. Verhoeven was born in Udenhout, the fourth child of seven from...
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  • Catholic Dutch painter Cornelis Cornelisz, also known as Cornelis van Haarlem, (1562–1638), Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman Cornelis Cornelisz Kunst...
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    were built in 1665. Number 548 was for Cornelis Backer, former board ships and, number 550 for mayor Henry Hooft Gerritsz and No. 552 for Dirck van der...
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    Jacobsz Bal Huydecoper van Wieringen, Jacobsz Reael, Adriaan Pauw and Cornelis Hooft took over the social leadership within the city of Amsterdam in order...
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    Catharina Hooft as a child, by Frans Hals (1619) Cornelis de Graeff, painted by Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, (1636) Catharina Hooft -...
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    of Pottage. Allegory of Cornelis de Graeff as leader of his people: Cornelis de Graeff as Isaac with his wife Catharina Hooft as Rebecca with their sons...
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    Amsterdam this lay with the brothers Andries and Cornelis de Graeff, and in The Hague with the brothers Cornelis and Johan de Witt, the leaders of Holland's...
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    the arrival of the wealthy Amsterdam burgomaster Cornelis de Graeff with his second wife Catharina Hooft and his sons Pieter and Jacob de Graeff at Soestdijk...
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  • Muiderkring, the arts and sciences coterie whose central figure was P. C. Hooft, he was known as a "dilettante" with an interest in natural philosophy (the...
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    Cornelis de Hooghe (1541, in The Hague – 1583, in The Hague) was a 16th-century engraver and mapmaker from the Northern Netherlands. Cornelis de Hooghe...
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    Ooghen-troost (1647), Hofwijck (1653) and Trijntje Cornelis (1653). This last work, Trijntje Cornelis, is an explosion of Huygens' creativity. It testifies...
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    relationship with him and the Remonstrants. He was friends with burgomaster Cornelis Hooft, and competed with him on a committee on the city of Amsterdam's expansion...
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