List of Famous people named Jacobus

Here are some famous Jacobuses:

Jacobus Anthonie Meessen

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Meessen
Died on October 14, 1885

Jacobus Anthonie Meessen was a Dutch photographer who took more than 250 portraits and landscapes of the Dutch East Indies between 1864 and 1870. Born to a carpenter in Utrecht, Meessen worked in that trade in the Indies before marrying in the Netherlands in the early 1860s. He returned to the colony in 1864, intent on documenting its land and people. He worked mostly in the capital of Batavia, Java, and Padang, Sumatra; he also photographed Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, and Nias.

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Hoff
Born on August 30, 1852
Died on March 1, 1911 (aged 58)

Jacobus Henricus "Henry" van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.

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Jacobus Houbraken

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Houbraken
Died on November 14, 1780

Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom he assisted in producing a published record of the lives of artists from the Dutch Golden Age.

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Jacobus Venter

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Venter
Born on February 13, 1987 (age 38)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Jacobus Venter is a South African racing cyclist, who currently rides for amateur mountain biking team First Move.

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Jacobus van Looy

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Looy
Born on September 12, 1855
Died on February 24, 1930 (aged 74)

Jacobus (Jac) van Looy was a Dutch painter and writer.

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Jacobus Arnoldus Retief

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Retief
Died on November 22, 1925
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Jacobus Trigland

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Trigland
Died on September 22, 1705
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Jacobus Trigland

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Trigland
Born on July 22, 1583
Died on April 5, 1654 (aged 70)

Jacobus Trigland (Triglandius) was a Dutch Reformed theologian. After the Synod of Dort of 1618-19, he worked and wrote against the Remonstrants.

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Jacobus Heiblocq

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Heiblocq
Born on June 19, 1623
Died on September 28, 1690 (aged 67)
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Jacobus Duivenvoorde

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Duivenvoorde
Born on November 15, 1928
Died on November 16, 2011 (aged 83)

Jacobus Duivenvoorde was the Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Merauke, Indonesia.

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