Cover of Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), part 1
The Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) is a biographical reference work in the Dutch language. It was published in ten parts between 1911 and 1937 by Sijthoff, Leiden, and the editors were P. C. Molhuysen and P. J. Blok. The lexicon contains more than 22,000 short biographies on important or at least notable Dutch people born before 1910. The NNBW was compiled by several hundred historians and other experts. It is considered one of the most important reference works for Dutch history.
It has been digitalised through a collaboration between the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (dbnl) and the Institution for Dutch History (ING), and both organisations have made the NNBW fully available to everyone on their respective sites.
Nicolaas Geelvinck, son of Nicolaes Geelvinck, Lord of Stabroek, was President of the Dutch West India Company from 1764 until 1787.
Robert Junius, also recorded as Robertus Junius was a Dutch Reformed Church missionary to Taiwan from 1629 to 1643. Along with Antonius Hambroek and Joannes Cruyf, he was among the longest-serving missionaries of the Dutch colonial era in Formosa.
The Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 1880–2000 (BWN) is a Dutch biographical dictionary, in which short biographies of well-known and less well-known but still notable Dutch people are listed.
Philip, Count of Egmont was the fifth Count of Egmont, prince of Gavere and 12th and last Lord of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam.
The Biografisch Portaal is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.
Johann August Just was a German keyboard player, violinist and composer.
Johannes van der Aeck (1636–1682) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jean Henri Pareau, also known as Joannes Henricus Pareau was a Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist. He was the father of theologian Louis Gerlach Pareau (1800–1866).
Ernst Wilhelm Moes, was a Dutch art historian and director of the print cabinet for the Rijksmuseum.
Abraham van der Haagen was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver, of whose work nothing remains.
The Dutch Israelite Religious Community of The Hague is the Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish community in The Hague and is a member of the Nederlands-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap (NIK).
Johan Carl Krauss, was a German-born professor of medicine at Leiden, botanist, taxonomist and author of botanical books. He was the son of Christophorus Adam Krauss, a physician at the court of Prince Hohenlohe, and Dorothea Zolner. He is best known for his publication "Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters".
Jan Jacobsz. Schipper (1616-1669) was a bookseller, printer, and theatre poet in Amsterdam.
Hendrik Adriaan (Hein) van Beuningen was a Dutch businessman and politician.
Theodor Willem Johannes Juynboll also: Theodorus Willem Johannes Juijnboll, Theodorus Guiliemus Johannes Juynboll was a Dutch Reformed theologian and oriental philologist.
Johannes Godefridus Frederiks was a Dutch historian and literary scholar, co-editor of the second edition of the Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde.
Hendrik Temminck, sometimes also Temming was from 1 March 1722 to 17 September 1727, governor of the Dutch plantation colony of Surinam.
Samuel Marolois was a Dutch mathematician and military engineer who is best known for his work on perspective.
Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen was a Dutch librarian, historian, biographer, and editor of a leading biographical dictionary, the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. He was librarian of the Peace Palace, and later of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. In the latter capacity he was influential in organizing a national and international network of libraries and their interlibrary loan operations. He also stimulated the development of Dutch public libraries.
Pontus de Huyter was a Dutch theologian, historian and humanist.
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