Johannes Enschedé Jr. (16 November 1750 in

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(Dutch) Johannes Enschedé (2) was a Haarlem regent and collector.

Biography

He was the grandson of the founder of the

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company, and one of the first members of the '' Dutch Society of Science'' and the '' Teylers Second Society''. He was a regent of the St. Elizabeth's-Gasthuis and the

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en Noblet. Johannes was the son of

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and the brother of Jacobus and Abraham. He married

Johanna Elisabeth Swaving Johanna Elisabeth Swaving (17 December 1754 in Weesp – 26 June 1826 in Haarlem), was a Dutch businesswoman and publisher of the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant. Biography She was born in Weesp as the daughter of the mayor of Weesp Christiaan S ...

and was the father of

Johannes Enschedé III Johannes Enschedé III (7 March 1785 in Haarlem – 8 October 1866 in Haarlem)P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.)Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 1(Dutch) Johannes Enschedé (3) was a Haarlem newspaper editor and printer. Biog ...

and Christiaan Justus (the father of

Adriaan Justus Enschedé Adriaan Justus Enschedé (20 June 1829 in Haarlem – 19 March 1896 in Haarlem)P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.)Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 3(Dutch) Adriaan Justus Enschedé was a Haarlem Archivist, collector, owner of th ...

). His father was a collector of Costeriana and had statues of Coster and Hadrianus Junius, Coster's biographer, placed in the garden of his home, adjacent to the typesetter's workshop in 1768. An engraving by Cornelis van Noorde shows the workshop and the statues. Enschedé Jr. continued his father's collection of Costeriana and also added his love of Greek and Latin books. He died relatively young, and his wife succeeded him in his role leading the company. Under her influence the day-to-day operations were split into three divisions; the newspaper, the type foundry, and the bible publishing. This "triumvirate" lasted three generations.

References

* Enschede aan het Klokhuisplein, (Dutch), by Just Enschede, De Vrieseborch, Haarlem, 1991, {{DEFAULTSORT:Enschede, Johannes Jr. Members of Teylers Tweede Genootschap 1750 births 1799 deaths 18th-century Dutch businesspeople Joh. Enschedé