Johannes Enschedé (

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...

, 10 July 1708 – Haarlem, 21 October 1780) was a Dutch printer, owner of Royal

Joh. Enschedé Royal Joh. Enschedé () is a printer of security documents, stamps and banknotes based in Haarlem, Netherlands - it specialises in print, media and security. The company hosted the Museum Enschedé until 1990 and has branches in Amsterdam, Brus ...

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p.572 (Dutch) Enschedé belonged to the family that owned the company currently known as Royal Joh. Enschedé (founded by

Izaak Enschedé Izaak Enschedé (Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of ...

).Entry of a painting of Johannes Enschedé in the RKD database
On 23 December 1736, he married Helena Hoefnagel (Haarlem, 12 December 1714 – Haarlem, 20 July 1781) daughter of Adriaan Hoefnagel and Sara Brinckhorst. Johannes had three sons, which joined him in the printing business:

Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

, Jacobus, and Abraham. Johannes Enschedé collected old books, and was one of the people who tried to defend the opinion that the Haarlem book printer

Laurens Janszoon Coster Laurens Janszoon Coster (; in Haarlem – ), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by some in the Netherl ...

was the original inventor of book printing. He was a member of

Teylers Tweede Genootschap Teylers Tweede Genootschap (English: Teylers Second Society), also known as the ''Wetenschappelijk Genootschap'' (Scientific Society) is one of the two societies founded within the Teylers Stichting with the purpose to promote and award prizes fo ...

(Teylers Second or Scientific Society) from its founding in 1778 until his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Enschede, Johannes Members of Teylers Tweede Genootschap 1708 births 1780 deaths Joh. Enschedé 18th-century Dutch businesspeople