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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0014-9527
- eISSN
- 1570-0690
- DOI
- 10.1163/157006976X00027
- Publisher site
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Abstract
A Dutch seventeenth-century book-collector: Paulus Terhaarius In putting together this brief outline of the life of the Dutch scholar and book-collector Paulus Terhaarius, I am assuming that he is the same per- son as the student of that name who defended a thesis at Leiden Univer- sity on Christmas Eve, 1646. In this case he was born at Amsterdam between 5 September 1625 and 5 September 1626. It seems that his father's name was Albert, while two uncles were Abraham and Peter Ter Haar. These three men were all merchants of Amsterdam, and there was obviously money in the family. On 5 September 1645 young Paulus, aged nineteen, matriculated at Leiden in the Faculty of Philoso- phy and the Liberal Arts; and on 24 December 1646 his thesis, defended under Professor Adrianus Heereboord, was entitled 'De affectuum cau- sis et divisionibus'.1 Along with many other such theses, it was printed by Bonaventura and Abraham Elscvir in a large collection bearing the date 1646. During the rest of the 1640s and most of the 165os he remained in Amsterdam, and it is certain that by 16S he was already a collector of rare books: indeed he disposed of one
Journal
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1976