Famous People with Name Joannes

Joannes De Laet            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joannes De Laet: was a Flemish geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. Philip Burden called his History of the New World, "...arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" and "...one of the foundation maps of Canada". de Laet was the first to print maps with the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam (now New York) and Massachusetts.In his leasure time, de Laet spent much of his time in his study room, well-stocked with books, manuscripts, maps, globes and paintings. He published widely on topics ranging from church history to world history, edited Pliny's Historia naturalis and Vitruvius' De architectura, wrote a detailed account of the New World and compiled an (unpublshed) Old English-Latin dictionary--to mention just a selection of his forty publications.

Joannes De Mol            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joannes De Mol: was a Dutch minister, Patriot and porcelain manufacturer in the second half of the 18th century. De Mol - like many of his contemporaries - had a great interest in poetry and scientific experiments.De Mol began with experiments in his garden shed behind the parsonage, opposite the church in Oud-Loosdrecht. In 1774, he started producing porcelain as a way of creating employments for the local population in the impoverished peat district. A part of the production process, however, was sited in Bilthoven.

Jóannes Jakobsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Jóannes Jakobsen: is a former Faroese footballer, defender) musician and composer, having released 3 albums on the Faroe Islands and produced a lot of albums for other artists. Jakobsen made his debut for the Faroe Islands in an April 1989 friendly match against Canada, im

Joannes Antonius Baars            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joannes Antonius Baars: was a leading Dutch fascist during the 1930s.Baars gained some support amongst the poor as his coarse, down-to-earth style of rhetoric could easily be identified with by people who spoke in the same manner. This group joined Haighton's movement and the National Union in 1933 to form a 'corporative concentration', although Baars, who was a market trader by profession, had little time for Carel Gerretson, the university professor who led the new group.