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Adriaan Loosjes
Adriaan Loosjes (1761, Texel – 1818, Haarlem), was a 19th-century botanist, poet, novelist and publisher born in Den Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands.
Biography.
He came from a family of Mennonite ministers and was an active member of the Doopsgezinde kerk, Haarlem, where he started his first literary society in 1777, "Honos alit artes". In 1779 he started another one called "Vlijt moeder der Wetenschappen" that began to annually announce contests with a prize similar
Cornelis Loosjes
Cornelis Loosjes (Zaandam, 28 January 1723 - Haarlem, 5 January 1792) was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister. 
Cornelis was son of Adriaan Loosjes and Guurtje Klaasd. Visser, and the brother of Petrus Loosjes. First he was Mennonite teacher and minister in Gouda during the years 1744-1751, after that from 1751-1763 he was minister of the "Mennonites of the East side" in Zaandam, but in 1763 he moved to the congregation in Haarlem in the Peuzelaarsteeg. Loosjes was founder