Izaak Enschedé

Izaak Enschedé (16 April 1681, Haarlem – 1 May 1761, Haarlem) was the founder of the printing company Royal Joh. Enschedé in 1703.[1]

Isaak Enschedé aged 74, by Cornelis van Noorde. Behind him is the statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster.

He was the son of Johannes Enschda (baptised 18 July 1642, Groningen – 4 October 1706, Haarlem) and Elisabeth Jansdochter van den Berg (27 April 1632, Haarlem – 18 July 1723, Haarlem).

On 29 October 1702 in Haarlem he married Beeltje van der Lucht (22 January 1677, Haarlem – 8 March 1756, Haarlem), daughter of Barend Stevenzoon van der Lucht en Jozijntje Marchant.[2]

The first book of rhetoric in Dutch, by dr. Johannes Huwé, printed by Isaac Enschedé in 1710

Until then Enschedé worked for the Opregte Haarlemsche Courant that was owned by the heirs of Vincent Casteleyn.[1] Together with his son Johannes, they bought the newspaper in 1737, the same year they were named city publisher by the council of Haarlem.[1] The family business went well and they took over the typesetting business of the Amsterdam publisher Hendrik Floris Wetstein in 1743, which had fonts designed by the punchcutter Joan Michaël Fleischman.[1]

References and footnotes
  1. Zuidema, Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek p.572 (Dutch)
  2. Het huis Enschedé, 1703-1953, Joh.Enschedé en zonen, Haarlem, 1953
gollark: No, I mean unless their system would allow that.
gollark: Unless I can just randomly generate "human" fingerprints.
gollark: This just offloads the "are you a human" verification to someone else, though?
gollark: Yes, and also people see a big difference between "free" and "any cost whatsoever".
gollark: Although the trend now is horribly privacy-invasive background ones which silently deny you access to things.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.