Burghart, Jacobus (17th century)
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| Menno Simons by Jacobus Burghart 1683. Scan provided by Mennonite Library and Archives. MLA Photo 2006-0138 |
Jacobus Burghart, a German engraver, who is supposed to have lived during the second half of the 17th century in East Friesland and of whom nothing more is known, engraved a portrait of Menno Simons in 1683 (known as the Hamburg-Altona portrait). This picture, first edited by Petrus Grooten, was widely accepted among the Mennonites. In 1889 the congregation of Hamburg-Altona procured a new edition (Kunstverlag Hermann Braams, Norden-Norderney).
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1916): 77-80.
Mennonitische Blätter (1889): 113.
Molhuysen, P. C. and P. J. Blok. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 10 vols. Leiden, 1911-1937: v. II, 281. Available online at http://www.dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=molh003nieu00.
Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 37 vols. Leipzig: Seemann, 1907-1950: v. V, 251.
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