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Roemer Visscher Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant, the first Dutch underwriter and writer of the Dutch Golden Age. Life Visscher was born in and lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of t ...

(1547–1620), merchant and writer from Amsterdam **

Anna Visscher Anna Roemers Visscher (c. 2 February 1583 – 6 December 1651) was a Dutch people, Dutch artist, poet, and translation, translator. Biography Anna Roemers Visscher was the eldest daughter of Amsterdam merchant and poet Roemer Visscher and the s ...

(1584–1651), Dutch artist, poet, and translator, daughter of Roemer **

Maria Tesselschade Visscher Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, also called Maria Tesselschade Roemersdochter Visscher or Tesselschade (25 March 1594 – 20 June 1649) was a Dutch poet and glass engraver. Life Tesselschade was born in Amsterdam, the youngest of three ...

(1594–1649), Dutch poet, and engraver, daughter of Roemer * Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587–1652), engraver and publisher from Amsterdam **

Nicolaes Visscher I Nicolaes Visscher I (25 January 1618, Amsterdam – buried 11 September 1679, Amsterdam) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of Claes Janszoon Visscher. His son, Nicolaes Visscher II (1649–1702), also worked with him ...

(1618–1679), his son, Dutch cartographer and publisher ***

Nicolaes Visscher II Nicolaes Visscher II (1649, Amsterdam – 1702, Amsterdam) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of Nicolaes Visscher I and the grandson of Claes Janszoon Visscher Claes Janszoon Visscher (1587 – 19 June 1652) was a ...

(1649–1702), his son, Dutch cartographer and publisher * Frans Jacobszoon Visscher (fl.1623–1645), Dutch mariner and explorer; variants of his first name include Franchoijs or Franchoys etc; his middle name is sometimes abbreviated "Jacobsz." * Three brothers (de) Visscher of Haarlem: **

Cornelis Visscher Cornelis Visscher (1629 in Haarlem – 1658 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and the brother of Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Biography According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime), an ...

(1628/29 – 1658), Dutch engraver ** Lambert Visscher (1633 – aft.1690), Dutch printmaker active in Italy ** Jan de Visscher (1635/36 – aft.1692), Dutch engraver and painter * (1835–1912), Dutch translator and writer * (1864–1947), Dutch theologian and politician * John Paul Visscher (1895–1950), American protozoologist * Jantje Visscher (born 1933), American painter, photographer, and sculptor * (born 1960), Dutch comedian and cabaret performer *

Maurice Visscher Maurice Bolks Visscher (August 25, 1901 – May 1, 1983) was an American cardiovascular physiologist. He is best known for demonstrating that cardiac muscle declines in efficiency as it fails, and for pioneering the use of isotopes to study elect ...

(1901–1983), American physiologist * Peter Visscher, Dutch-born Australian geneticist Visschers * Jacques Visschers (born 1940), Dutch footballer De Visscher * Charles De Visscher (1884–1973), Belgian jurist * (1885–1964), Belgian legal historian * (1916–1996), Belgian jurist, son of Charles * Jeffrey de Visscher (born 1981), Dutch footballer * William Lightfoot Visscher (1842-1924), poet & newspaperman in Washington State

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