Cornelis Nozeman
Cornelius Nozeman or Cornelis (15 August 1720– 22 July 1786) was a Dutch people, Dutch Remonstrant Minister (Christianity), churchman and naturalist. Biography He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the composer Jacobus Nozeman. He was trained as a preacher and called to Alkmaar where he served 1744–1749. There he began to conduct science experiments in his free time. In 1749 he was called to serve in Haarlem, where he became a supporter of the founding of the society ''Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen''. According to his biographer A.J. van der Aa, he would have become a member of that society except he had an argument with one of the directors based on "two letters to anonymous", that he wrote in 1751 and 1752. This was probably A.J. van der Aa's grandfather, Christianus Carolus Henricus van der Aa (1718-1793), a Lutheran minister in Haarlem and secretary to the society, who like Nozeman also had worked in Alkmaar before coming to Haarlem. In 1755 he purchased a ...
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