I’m planning more posts about the following politically significant figures, about whom little is known in the non-Dutch-reading world. For now, the links to Dutch and English sources (Biografisch Portaal van Nederland and the Global Anabaptist-Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, plus a few others when appropriate) will serve as a start.
Images of François Adriaan van der Kemp, Adriaan Loosjes Pietersz, and Agatha Deken (Source: see details at the end of this blog entry)
Political activists before, during and immediately after the Patriot era of the 1780s:
- Andries Scheltes Cuperus (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Cuperus,_Andries_Scheltes_(ca._1750-1812))
- Agatha Deken (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/12334928 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Deken,_Agatha_(1741-1804)), plus https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Deken
- Cornelis van Engelen (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/39843533 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Engelen,_Cornelis_van_(ca._1722-1793), plus Piet Visser’s essay in https://www.academia.edu/11100713/Grenzen_des_T%C3%A4ufertums_Boundaries_of_Anabaptism_Neue_Forschungen_2009_
- Jan van Geuns (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/04574209 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Geuns,_Jan_van_(1764-1834))
- Matthias van Geuns [***needs checking]
- Gerrit Hesselink (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/12789248 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hesselink,_Gerrit_(1755-1811))
- Allard Hulshoff (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/54799699 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hulshoff,_Allard_(1734-1795))
- Adriaan Loosjes Pietersz (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/06143167 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Loosjes,_Adriaan_(1761-1818), plus https://www.academia.edu/94111965/Mennonite_Revolutionaries_An_Oxymoron_2014_and_2019_
- Cornelis Loosjes (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/69046128 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Loosjes,_Cornelis_(1723-1792))
- Petrus Loosjes (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/79788198 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Loosjes,_Petrus_(1735-1813))
- F.A. van der Kemp (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/56186037 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kemp,_Franciscus_Adriaan_van_der_(1752-1829)), plus https://www.academia.edu/93612866/Kemp_Francis_Adrian_van_der
- Nicolaas Klopper (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Klopper_family)
- Jan Kops (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/27295777 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kops,_Jan_(1765-1849))
- Jacob Kuiper (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kuiper,_Jacob_(d._1825))
- Jan Nieuwenhuizen (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Nieuwenhuizen,_Jan_(1724-1806))
- Martinus Nieuwenhuizen (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Nieuwenhuizen,_Martinus_(1759-1793))
- Heere Oosterbaan (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/20111901 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oosterbaan,_Heere_(1736-1807))
- Cornelis Ris (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/05851850 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ris,_Cornelis_(1717-1790))
- Jelle Sipkes van Teerns (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/31456704 and Piet Visser, Keurige Ketters)
- Abraham Staal (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/66512370 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Staal,_Abraham_(1752-18%3F%3F))
- Johannes Stinstra (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/68327532 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Stinstra,_Johannes_(1708-1790))
- Jan Ymes Tichelaar (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/12722266 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Tichelaar_family)
- Willem de Vos (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/81780291 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vos,_Willem_de_(1737-1823))
- Jan Wagenaar (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/09114589 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Wagenaar,_Jan_(1709-1773))
Members of the Batavian Republic’s national legislatures, many of whom were also revolutionaries in the Patriot Movement of the 1780s:
- Jan Bernard Blijdenstein (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/22174528 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Blijdenstein_family)
- Hermanus ten Cate (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/16438970)
- Pieter Cats (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/22326411)
- Wybo Fijnje (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/14011365 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Fijnje,_Wybo_(1750-1809))
- Jacob Hendrik Floh (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/36152301 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Floh,_Jacob_Hendrik_(1758-1830))
- Abraham de Haan (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/71378385 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Haan,_de,_family)
- Koenraad Hovens (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/05534916 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hovens_family)
- Teunis Hulshoff (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/77826587)
- Tonco Modderman (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/20406958)
- Willem Ris (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/75454366)
- Evert Roorda (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/03326805)
- Alart Scheltinga (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/08014854)
- Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/38999628 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Schimmelpennink_family)
- Simon Stijl (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/05822520 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Stijl_family)
- Pieter Toens (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/14590509 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Toens_family)
- Pieter Vreede (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/14590509 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vreede_family)
- Pier Zeper (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/13270884 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Zeper_family)
- Gerard van der Zoo (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/13097926)
19th-century figures who played a significant role in shaping the memory of Mennonite involvement in democratic revolutionary organizing:
- Steven Blaupot ten Cate (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/18456322 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Cate,_Steven_Blaupot_ten_(1807-1884))
- Jan Hartog (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/02085588 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hartog,_Jan_(1829-1909))
- J.G. de Hoop Scheffer (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/10810900 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hoop_Scheffer,_Jacob_Gijsbert_de_(1819-1894))
- Maria Hulshoff (https://dutchdissenters.net/wp/2019/03/maria-aletta-hulshoff/)
- Samuel Muller (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/33049971 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Muller,_Samuel_(1785-1875))
- Christiaan Sepp (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/09948965 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sepp,_Christiaan_(1820-1890))
- Matthijs Siegenbeek (http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/53188577 and https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Siegenbeek,_Matthijs_(1774-1854))
I am aware that this post does not include much information about German democratic activists from Mennonite backgrounds. This might be the subject of another blog post.
SELECTED LITERATURE
For more on this subject, see…
Nanne van der Zijpp’s very short article in the GAMEO (https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Patriots_and_Mennonites_in_the_Netherlands) plus my articles archived on Academia.edu, such as…
- “Mennonite Revolutionaries: An Oxymoron?” (https://www.academia.edu/94111965/Mennonite_Revolutionaries_An_Oxymoron_2014_and_2019_)
- “Maria Aletta Hulshoff” (https://www.academia.edu/94068374/Maria_Aletta_Hulshoff_1781_1846_)
- “Obrigkeit” (https://www.academia.edu/93795775/Obrigkeit_about_early_modern_Anabaptists_and_political_authority_)
- “Aufklärung” (https://www.academia.edu/93611083/Aufkl%C3%A4rung_Enlightenment_particularly_in_Dutch_Mennonite_history_)
- “Kemp, Francis Adrian van der” (https://www.academia.edu/93612866/Kemp_Francis_Adrian_van_der)
- “Anabaptists and the Early Modern State: A Long-Term View” (https://www.academia.edu/94113355/Anabaptists_and_the_Early_Modern_State_A_Long_Term_View_2007_)
In Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood (https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/mennonites-politics-and-peoplehood) James Urry provides an excellent overview in English of the Dutch Patriot era, with special attention to the role of Mennonites.
Also see several essays about religion and politics in the 1780s and after by these important scholars…
- Yme Kuiper (https://rug.academia.edu/YmeKuiper),
- Joris Oddens (https://knaw.academia.edu/JorisOddens), and
- Piet Visser (https://independent.academia.edu/PietVisser) (note a couple of references in the fields above to Visser’s work).
Images of François Adriaan van der Kemp, Adriaan Loosjes Pietersz, Agatha Deken, Samuel Muller, and Jacob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer (Source: Gedoopt: Vijf Eeuwen Doopsgezinden in Nederland [ca. 2010], text by Klaas van der Hoek, Adriaan Plak, Piet Visser, and Anna Voolstra; the collection consists of over 40 loose-leaf portraits with text on the reverse side)