Abraham Enschedé [SEP] place of death
Abraham Enschedé
Abraham Enschedé (20 March 1760 in Haarlem – 2 August 1820 in Haarlem) was a Dutch newspaper editor and printer.
Biography.
He was a son of Johannes Enschedé and Helena Hoefnagel. For some time he was a partner in the family company. On 31 October 1785 in Weesp he married Sandrina Christina Swaving (Rio de Berbice 25 December 1768–Haarlem 28 June 1822) the daughter of Jan Justus Swaving and Christina Elisabeth Becker. On 16 March 1787 in Haarlem his son Jacobus Enschedé II was born.
of Jacobus and Abraham. He married Johanna Elisabeth Swaving and was the father of Johannes Enschedé III and Christiaan Justus (the father of Adriaan Justus Enschedé).
His father was a collector of Costeriana and had statues of Coster and Hadrianus Junius, Coster's biographer, placed in the garden of his home, adjacent to the typesetter's workshop in 1768. An engraving by Cornelis van Noorde shows the workshop and the statues. Enschedé Jr. continued his father's collection of Costeriana and also added his love of Greek and Latin books