Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List Dutch Zoological Cabinets ... - DWC

32
lected fish papers of Pieter Bleeker, collected and edited by W.H, Lamme in
14 volumes ('s-Gravenhage 1979). The first volume contains an English translation
of his autobiography and the catalogue of the auction, cf, also the
biographical sketch by Pieter Harting in Jaarb. Kon. Ned. Akad. v. Wet.
1877.
153. BLEULAND, Jan - 20 July 1756 Gouda - 8 Nov. 1838 Utrecht. Town physician
Gouda; 1791-1795 Prof. anat., surg. and obstetr. Harderwijk; 1795-1838
Prof. anat., physiol. and obstetr. Utrecht.
His anatomical collections were well-known in his own days, now as "Museum
Bleulandianum" in University Utrecht. In 1816 King William I financially
supported its acquisition by the University. Later on the collection was divided
into a zoological and a medical part. The zoological part became the
basis for the Zoological Museum Utrecht. Bleuland published a description of
his cabinet, containing 2,000 specimens in 1828: "Descriptio musei anatomici
quod Regis munificentia Academia Rheno-Trajectinae concenssit", cf. Witkamp
1888, p. 306. Descriptions and drawings of the most important items of his
collection he published under the title "Otium Academicum ••• ", 1828. AKL
1815, II, p. 367 (collection offered for sale); 1816, II, p. 323 (collection
bought by King William I for Univ. Utrecht). Meiszner 1819, p. 52 (v. 1817);
Anon. 1819, p. 209 (v. 1819); Fliedner 1831, II, p. 418 (v. 1823); Horn
1831, p. 377, 383. Vander Aa II, p. 614-618; NNBW I, col. 370-371; JWP III,
p. 345; IV, p. 375; V, p. 234; Kobus & De Rivecourt I, p. 171; Maitland
1855, p. 167; Berestein 1972, p. 56. AKL 1791, VII, nr. 165, p. 65 (appointed
in vacature van Geuns, Harderwijk); AKL 1839 II, p. 418-427, 438-444;
B.J. Kouwer & H,J. Lameris 1908: lets uit de geschiedenis der klinieken voor
Heel- en Verloskunde der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, met eene beschrijving
der nieuwe inrichting (with portr. and bibl. of Bleuland); 0. Banki in NRC 9
Nov. 1938; Ned, Tijdschr. Geneesk. LXXXIII, 1939, p. 3838-3844: Het levenswerk
van Professor Jan Bleuland en zijn leerling en prosector Petrus Koning
(q.v.) alsmede een tentoonstelling van preparaten en modellen uit het Museum
Bleulandianum en de verzameling Koning ••• ; Werken v.h. Genootschap Bevordering
Geneeskunde XVI(2), p. 385; J.G.W.F. Bik 1962: Doctor Jan Bleuland.
Hoogleraar te Harderwijk en Utrecht, 1756-1838, in: Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk.
CVI, p. 476-482. F. Muller 1853: Beschr. Cat. van 7.000 portr. van Nederlanders;
J.F. van Someren 1888-1891, nr. 504, 505; Portr. by Wonder in Univ.
Utrecht.
154. BLOCK- 's-Gravenhage.
Cabinet, cf. Uffenbach 1754, III, p. 393.
155. BLOCK (BLOK), Agnes (or Agneta) - 29 Oct. 1629 Emmerik - 20 April
1704 Amsterdam, Well-known for her beautiful garden "Vijverhof", at the
river Vecht. First married Hans de Wolff, a nephew of J. van den Vondel
(1649-1670), then with Sybrand de Flines (1674-1697). The great poet Joost
van den Vondel (1587- 1679) became her uncle because of her first marriage
and made some occasional poems for his niece (see Works of Vondel, e.g. Alb.