Famous People with Name Esaias

Esaias Boursse            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Esaias Boursse: was a Dutch painter. His paintings were mainly genre works.He was the youngest son of immigrants from Wallonia. His parents, Jacques Boursse and Anna des Forest, married in 1618 in Amsterdam. We know nothing more about the education of Esaias Boursse, other than the fact that he travelled to Italy in about 1650 to study the great Renaissance examples.

Esaias Van De Velde            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Esaias Van De Velde: was a Dutch landscape painter.Born in Amsterdam, whereto his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585, he probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo, a landscape painter from Antwerp and a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Esaias Tegnér            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Esaias Tegnér: was a Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantique epos Frithjof's Saga. He has been called Sweden's first modern man. Much is known about him, and he also wrote openly about himself.

Esaias Reusner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Esaias Reusner: was a German lutenist and composer. His first lute teacher was his father Esaias (lutenist to the Prince of Bernstadt). He was a child prodigy and together with his father he traveled and performed at various courts. He wrote two collections of lute suites - Deliciae testudinis and Neue Lauten-früchte. In the years from 1655 to 1672, he was in the service of the duke of Silesia. Thereafter, he worked for a short time as a flute and lute teacher at the University of Leipzig. Finally in 1674, he was appointed chamber lutenist at the court of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin, where he remained until his death.

Esaias Fleischer            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Esaias Fleischer: was a Danish priest. He was a son of pharmacist Esaias Fleischer, and of Silesian roots.[1] He studied at Sorø Academy before enrolling at the University of Copenhagen in 1652. He was influenced by Niels Svendsen Kronich, but because of this he deviated too much from the state church, and was sentenced to lose his academic rights in 1655. He then studied at the University of Rostock, University of Strasbourg, University of Leiden and University of Oxford, and also stayed in France and Italy. He returned to Denmark in 1664, where his reputation had been restored, partly because of his connection to Hans Nansen. Esaias' maternal aunt was Nansen's wife.