Hans van der Hellen (Latinized: Johannis Hellenij) was a Dutch printer in Middelburg, Zeeland, during the Dutch Golden Age.
Van der Hellen lived and worked in Zierikzee (from 1614 to 1617) and moved his printer's shop to Middelburg (which in the early seventeenth century was a flourishing center for the bookprinting industry) in 1617; at least in 1664 he was still working there, first in De Fransche Galey and then in 't Wapen van Audenaerde. He printed for local publishers as well as for publishers in Amsterdam, such as Maerten Jansz. Brandt[1] and Jan Evertsen Cloppenburgh.[2] Important works he printed include the first books by Jacob Cats[1] (he printed an expensive version of Cats' first emblem book, Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus (1618)[3][4]) Johan de Brune's Emblemata of Zinne-werck,[2] and a great number of publications by Willem Teellinck.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Meertens, P. J. (1943). Letterkundig leven in Zeeland in de zestiende en de eerste helft der zeventiende eeuw. Amsterdam: N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij. pp. 420, 421.
- ^ a b Weij, Marleen Van Der (2003). "'A Good Man, Burgher and Christian': the intended reader in Johan de Brune's Emblemata". In Alison Adams, Marleen van der Weij (ed.). Emblems of the Low Countries: Book Historical Perspective. Librairie Droz. pp. 111–28. ISBN 9780852617854. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ "50. Jacob Cats". 100 hoogtepunten van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Luijten, Hans (1996). "Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)". Emblem Project Utrecht. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Gorski, Philip S. (2000). "The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of Modernist Theories of Nationalism". American Journal of Sociology. 105 (5): 1428–68. doi:10.1086/210435. JSTOR 3003771.