Jan Evertsen Cloppenburgh Jr (1571–1648) was a Dutch

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active in

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during the

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. Cloppenburgh was born in

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, but he was already in 1589 working as a bookbinder in Amsterdam, where he married Annetje Pieters in 1597.C.P. Burger
Cloppenburgh (Jan Evertsz.)
in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, pp 612-3, 1908. He had an older brother with the same name (hence "Jr.") who became a publisher in

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. Cloppenburgh published many works, mostly of strict

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nature, including Johan de Brune's '' Emblemata of Zinne-werck''. He was buried in the

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on 3 October 1648.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cloppenburgh, Jan Evertsen 1571 births 1648 deaths Dutch publishers (people) 17th-century Dutch people 17th-century Dutch businesspeople People from De Wolden Burials at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam