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	Johan de Witt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johan de Witt (September 24, 1625, Dordrecht - August 20, 1672, The Hague) was a significant Dutch political figure.
		De Witt did his utmost to prevent any member of the House of Orange from gaining any power, convincing many provinces to abolish the stadtholderate entirely.
		De Witt created a strong navy, appointing one of his political cronies, Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, as supreme commander of the confederate fleet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johan_de_Witt (629 words)

	THOMAS WILMER DEWING - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS WILMER DEWING
		DE WINT, PETER (1784-1849), English landscape painter, of Dutch extraction, son of an English physician, was born at Stone, Staffordshire, on the 21st of January 1784.
		DE WITT, CORNELIUS (1623-1672), brother of John de Witt (q.v.), was born at Dort in 1623.
		DE WITT, JOHN (1625-1672), Dutch statesman, was born at Dort, on the 24th of September 1625.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DEWING_THOMAS_WILMER.htm (2004 words)

	Encyclopedia: Johan de Witt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cornelis, or Cornelius de Witt (1623-1672) was a Dutch statesman.
		De Witt was an associate of van Schooten and lived for a while in his house.
		De Witt brought about peace with England in 1654 and after this he was extremely successful in bringing prosperity to Holland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Johan-de-Witt (1921 words)

	Johan de Witt Biography / Biography of Johan de Witt Main Biography
		De Witt was named pensionary (chief legal and political officer) of Dordrecht in December 1650, and as such he was its principal deputy to the States of Holland.
		De Witt had not given the Dutch land forces the same attention as the navy, and he had delayed as long as possible the election of William III as captain general.
		De Witt's study of the relative values of life annuities and redeemable bonds, given to the States of Holland in 1671, was one of the earliest actuarial works, although not concerned with insurance as such.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-johan-de-witt (1085 words)

	JOHN DE WITT - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN DE WITT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father, Jacob de Witt, was six times burgomaster of Dort, and for many years sat as a representative of the town in the states of Holland.
		of Orange,and the principles advocated by Jacob de Witt triumphed, and the authority of the states of Holland became predominant in the republic.
		John de Witt married Wendela Bicker, daughter of an influential burgomaster of Amsterdam, in 1655, by whom he had two sons and three daughters.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /d/de/de_witt_john.htm (4287 words)

	Johan de Witt
		De Witt was personally favorable to this exclusion of William III from his ancestral dignities, but there is no truth in the suggestion that he prompted the action of Cromwell in this matter.
		The accession of King Charles II to the English throne led to the rescinding of the Act of Seclusion; nevertheless De Witt steadily refused to allow the prince of Orange to be appointed stadtholder or captain-general.
		Johan de Witt married Wendela Bicker, daughter of an influential burgomaster of Amsterdam, in 1655, by whom he had two sons and three daughters.
	www.nndb.com /people/495/000097204 (1134 words)

	Holland and Republicans
		The family de Witt were the first liberal republicans of Holland and became the leaders of the opposition against the House of Orange in the States of Holland and the States General.
		Johan was able to find the perpetrator, Jacob van der Graeff, the son of one of the magistrates of the Court "Hof of Holland" and he was sentenced to dead.
		De Witt was a member of one of the old burgher-regent families of his native town of Dordrecht (Dort).
	www.geerts.com /holland/holland-repiblicans.htm (3693 words)

	Kloosterman Genealogy, Johan de Witt
		Johan de Witt was born at Dordrecht, into a family of prosperous merchants and lawyers.
		Johan de Witt made a concession to the "Orangists" and called out (1668), that the young William III would be "Child of State" and Johan de Witt promised that William III would be educated in "State Business".
		The accession of Charles II to the English throne led to the rescinding of the Act of Seclusion; nevertheless de Witt steadily refused to allow the Prince of Orange to be appointed Stadtholder or captain general.
	www.kloosterman.be /gen-ned-johandewitt.php (1194 words)

	DeWitts of Dordrecht
		From this it seems that the two sons of the ruwaard (sheriff) Cornelis de Witt died without marrying, while the eldest son of Raadspensionaris de Witt, also called Johann, married his cousin Wilhelmina de Witt*, the youngest daughter of the ruwaard van Putten.
		Johan de Witt (died 27th May 1751, Brussels) left no male heirs, for his only son was not married when he died in 1783.
		The coat of arms of the de Witt family (Dordrecht) was a sinopel field with a hare, chased by a whippet and with a hound in the bottom of the shield.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Forest/1891/DEWITTDordrecht.htm (525 words)

	De Witt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		De Witt is the name of some places in the United States of America:
		De Witt Island is the name of an island off the south coast of Tasmania, Australia.
		Johan de Witt (1625-1672) was a Dutch politician
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/De_Witt (119 words)

	Death and statistics
		Johan de Witt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1653 to 1672.
		De Witt was one of the great statesmen of his day, at a time when the Netherlands was developing as a major trading nation and posing a serious challenge to the naval power of England.
		De Witt's mortality figures are far too tidy to have been derived by observation alone, although they may have been influenced by actual records of births and deaths.
	plus.maths.org /issue12/features/annuities (2694 words)

	Johan de Witt -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		De Witt was a member of one of the old burgher-regent families of his native town of Dordrecht…;
		The poet and critic Johan Henrik Kellgren is considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment.
		Johan Heiberg was a Danish playwright, poet, literary historian, and critic who brought the Danish Romantic School to an end and established a new era of topical, sophisticated, and satirical literature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077291 (444 words)

	Some expressions
		De Witt was able to neutralize this power, but after he had been killed by the Orangists, the stadholdership was again monopolized by members of the Orange family.
		As prince of Orange, William (1650-1702) was entitled to the stadholdership of Holland, but the Estates General and Johan de Witt carefully kept him out of this office, hoping to continue the policy of neutrality that was so beneficial to trade.
		William of Orange was made stadholder and although he was no match for the French generals, admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the English and in the end, a daring expedition to Bonn by prince William forced the bishop of Cologne to leave the coalition.
	www.livius.org /bn-bz/bruijn/dutch.html (1320 words)

	Witt, Jan de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like his father, Jacob de Witt, burgomaster of Dort, he became a leading opponent of the house of Orange and played a vital role in the three successive Dutch Wars.
		However, when he visited his brother, Cornelius de Witt, in prison, a mob gathered outside, fought its way into the prison, and hacked the two brothers to pieces, hanging their scattered limbs on lamp posts.
		De Witt was one of the greatest of Dutch statesmen and patriots, a patron of the sciences, and a close friend of Spinoza.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Witt-J1an.asp (525 words)

	Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1727)
		Cornelis de Bruijn was born in The Hague, the political center of the Dutch republic, the residence of prince William, and a very cosmopolitan town.
		However this may be, the Dutch were at war with England, France, and two German bishops; Louis XIV occupied the eastern provinces of the Dutch republic; Johan de Witt was lynched by the mob of The Hague; and prince William was made stadholder, which meant that he was commander of the Dutch army.
		He was still inexperienced, but admiral Michiel de Ruyter was able to prevent a British invasion from the west, and in 1674, a peace treaty put an end to the Third Anglo-Dutch war.
	www.livius.org /bn-bz/bruijn/cornelis_de_bruijn.html (1549 words)

	De_Witt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1650 de Witt was appointed the leader of Dordrecht's deputation in the government of Holland.
		As leader of Holland, de Witt applied his mathematical knowledge to the financial and budgetary problems of the republic.
		When war broke out again with England in 1665 de Witt was able to bring about a very satisfactory settlement at the Treaty of Breda (1667).
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/De_Witt.html (400 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did a mob of angry Dutch kill and eat their prime minister?
		(2) De Witt's chief problem prior to being eaten was that he was a staunch republican in an era when most people preferred to be ruled by a prince.
		De Witt had no use for princes or stadtholders and contrived to keep the Williams out of the picture during most of the time he was boss Dutchman.
		Johan went to see about getting him out of jail, which was surrounded by a mob.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/050923.html (826 words)

	Phamine goes into provisional liquidation
		CEO Johan de Witt told Mining Weekly Online that the application for liquidation was brought against Phamine in December, by “an unhappy individual within the company”.
		The amount to be paid by the investor, whose identity De Witt would not reveal at this stage, will depend on what agreements are reached with creditors.
		De Witt said the company was looking at restarting only its tin businesses for the meantime — Phamine also owns Brakpan-based Lead Processors.
	www.dailytenders.co.za /General/News/Article/Article.asp?ID=675 (668 words)

	Johan De Witt Biography / Biography of Johan De Witt 1450 To 1699: Mathematics Biography
		Dutch mathematician and statesman who applied his mathematical talents to the financial problems of Holland during his career as grand pensionary, by arguing probabilistically that life annuities were offered at too high a rate of interest in comparison with fixed annuities.
		De Witt applied the concept of expectation to form equal contracts developed in 1657 by Christiaan Huygens in his De ratiociniis in aleae ludo (On Calculation in Games of Chance), which was important in the development of probability theory.
		In his work in pure mathematics de Witt gave one of the first systematic treatments of the analytic geometry of the straight line and conic in the Cartesian algebraic tradition.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-johan-de-witt-scit-03123 (169 words)

	The Guerre de Hollande (the Dutch War) - History Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary (practically prime minister) of the Republic, formed a coalition (the Republic, England, Sweden), which would take action if Louis advanced.
		Johan de Witt, who had been Pensionary (he had resigned under pressure of Willem III and supporters), and his brother Cornelis de Witt, were killed by an angry mob in the Hague on 20 August.
		The violence frightened the anti-Stadholder politicians, who feared to be killed by mob-violence like their leader, Johan de Witt, had been.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1408 (2406 words)

	Johan van Benthem on Spinoza and the First Golden Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johan de Witt was the grand pensionary of Holland and the United Provinces.
		I hope that NWO will institute a 'De Witt Award' one day, but I wonder which latter-day Dutchperson would ever be eligible for this kind of achievement.
		No De Witt emerged, although I do think that Abraham Kuypers is an interesting figure, combining politics with cultural and religious vision.
	www.illc.uva.nl /lia/goldenage.html (331 words)

	Biography of William III
		Stadtholder of the United Provinces (1672–1702) and king of Great Britain (1689–1702), born in The Hague, W Netherlands, the son of William II of Orange by Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles I of England.
		Before he attained his majority, he was kept out of national politics by Johan de Witt, Raadpensionaris (Grand Pensionary) of the province of Holland.
		That year de Witt, who was William's principal antagonist, was executed following a plot.
	www.allbiographies.com /biography-WilliamIII-41587.html (295 words)

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		John de Witt was truly one of the great statesmen of the seventeenth century.
		Johns father Jacob was a lawyer and a merchant (he owned a lumber business) but it was from political career that the de Witt family was able to prosper.
		John studied Mathematics under Franz van Schooten, however in that time mathematics was a career limited to a few university professors and a handful of military engineers, so de Witt never thought to make a living as mathematician.
	www.sienahts.edu /~ds105207/Witt.htm (262 words)

	20 Aug History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the 19th, the French police force announced its loyalty to the Résistance cause by seizing the Prefecture de Police in Paris, raising the French flag, and singing the Marseillaise.
		1672 Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt [1623-1672], torn apart by a mob.
		Johan de Witt was a Dutch lawyer, statesman (rising to Raadspensionaris van de Republiek der Verenigde Provinciën), and mathematician born on 24 September 1625.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4aug/h4aug20.html (8943 words)

	20 Aug History: This Date
		1672 Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt [1623–], mutilated and murdered by a mob.
		Johan de Witt [24 Sep 1625–;] was a Dutch lawyer, statesman (rising to Raadspensionaris van de Republiek der Verenigde Provinciën), and mathematician born on 24 September 1625.
		— More about Johan de Witt — Portrait of Cornelius de Witt, print by Captain William Baillie [05 Jun 1723 – 22 Dec 1810] — painting The Bodies of the De Wit Brothers, Hanged at Groene Zoodje on Vijverberg in The Hague (70x56cm; 1600x1294pix, 173kb), by an unknown painter.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4aug/h4aug20.html (10637 words)

	The Dutch history pages
		On my Dordrecht famous citizens page all about Johan de Witt, Simon van Slingerlandt, and others.
		The story of the Republicans of Holland against the House of Orange and the many political murders in the 17th century.
		The Black Tulip, a classic book from Alexandre Dumas about the story of Johan and Cornelis de Witt in the year 1672 also called Rampjaar (The Year of Disaster).
	www.geerts.com (669 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1672 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		August 20 - Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
		August 20 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b.
		August 20 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=1672 (527 words)

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