Zacharias Heyns (1566 – 1630) was a

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printer and engraver from the Northern Netherlands. Heyns was born in

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as the son of the schoolmaster Peeter Heyns, who was known for his French schoolbooks and translations from Dutch to French and back. The Heyns family moved to Frankfurt after the fall of Antwerp and when the elder Heyns moved to Stade in 1592, Zacharias became a publisher in Amsterdam near the Oude Kerk and married Anne Hureau. His first published works were a few Latin books by Eilhard Lubinus and schoolbooks by his father, and after his father's death he published maps of Holland with poetic comments under them in ''Den Nederlandtschen Landtspiegel'' in 1599. A copy of this book was found recently found by the Flevoland archives in a moving box originally from the Rijksdienst voor de Ijsselmeerpolders and won a contest for "archive piece of the year". In Amsterdam he became one of the founding members of the

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called ''Wit lavender'' for which he wrote two plays. He became friends with many Southern Netherlands refugees in Amsterdam and Haarlem, including

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and others. Zwolle - Voorstraat 41 - Voormalige Joodse School

Heyns moved to

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in 1606, where he opened a publishing company located behind what is now the Vrouwenhuis. It is there where he wrote an account of the 1609 international rhetoric contest in Haarlem for

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. In 1615 and 1616 he wrote poetry for the

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chamber of rhetoric called "De Roode Rosen", and in 1625 he published his poetry in an

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which became popular.Emblemata
by Heyns He died in Zwolle.

References

*Zacharias Heyns in the

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1566 births 1630 deaths Businesspeople from Antwerp Dutch printmakers Dutch male poets {{Netherlands-bio-stub