Anthony (Anthonius) Hoevenaer (1630 - 1695)

Field(s) of interest: scientific instruments | timepieces
Gender: male

Born: Rotterdam, ~1630
Died: Leiden, 15-10-1695

Biography:
Scientific instrument maker, born in Rotterdam. At the age of twelve, his grandfather Steven Hoevenaer, a goldsmith from Utrecht, sent him to his uncle Johan Sneewins, a famous instrument- and clockmaker from Utrecht. After six years of education Hoevenaer went to Leiden in 1653. At the time of his first marriage in 1654 he lived at the corner of the Kloksteeg and Rapenburg. A year later Dirck Jansz de Block became his apprentice. Around 1661, Hoevenaer moved his workshop, where he sold instruments as compasses, sundials, astrolabes and clocks, to the Rapenburg (now number 56). On March 25, 1683 Hoevenaer became instrument maker of Leiden University, when professor De Volder appointed him to the first supervisor of the Leiden Cabinet of Physics. After his death, his only surviving son, Simon Hoevenaer, continued the business at the Rapenburg, but later he moved to Utrecht.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (surveyor devices, 'Hollandse Cirkel', clocks and a sector); Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal Leiden; Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht; Museum Flehite, Amersfoort; Museum Gustarianum, Uppsula, Sweden; Musee National de la Marine, Paris (nocturnal signed 'Anthonius Hoevenaer Fecit Leydae').

Occupations:
instrument maker and retailer: ~1654 - 1692 (Leiden)

Sources:
Zinner, E. Deutsche und Niederländische Astronomische Instrumente (München 1956).

Rooseboom, M. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

Notary archive Leiden (P.G. van Tielt de Oude), inv. 922, no. 94: 24 April 1687 .

Zeeman, J. De Nederlandse staande klok (Zwolle 1996).

Plomp, R. Staande klok gesigneerd "Anthonius Hoevenaar fecit Leydae" (Breukelen 1988). Fotokopie van expertiserapport Typescript R. Plomp

Regionaal archief Leiden, port. 57.21: 22 July 1655 (a letter).

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in Album Studiosorum of the university Leiden subscribed on March 25., 1683 as: 'Antonius Hoevenaar, Di Profis Volderi amanuensis quod ad instrumenta methem'.

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