page_title: Middelburg
section_title: Public Thinking & public service
hierarchical_section_title: Middelburg / Notable locals / Public Thinking & public service
caption_attribution_description: Cecil Arthur Hoare. Photograph
context_page_description: Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, Midden-Zeeland, it has a population of about 48,000.
  In terms of technology, Middelburg played a role in the Scientific Revolution at the early modern period. The city was historically a center of lens crafting in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. The invention of the microscope and telescope is often credited to Middelburg spectacle-makers in the late 16th century and early 17th century.
context_section_description: Paul of Middelburg (1446–1534) a Flemish scientist and Bishop of Fossombrone 
  Philippe van Lansberge (1561–1632) a Dutch Calvinist Minister, astronomer and mathematician
  John Forbes (c.1568–1634) Founded a Church of Scotland
  Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637) a Dutch philosopher and scientist
  Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592–1663) an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer
  Paulus van de Perre (ca.1598 – 1653 in London) a Dutch politician and diplomat, negotiated with Oliver Cromwell
  Adam Boreel (1602–1665) a Dutch theologian and Hebrew scholar
  Margaretha Sandra (1629–1674) a Dutch military heroine in the siege of Aardenburg in 1672
  Frederik van Leenhof (1647–1715) a controversial Dutch pastor and philosopher
  Adrian Beverland (1650 — 1716 in London) a Dutch humanist scholar, banished in 1679 and settled in England
  Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673–1743) a Dutch jurist and legal theorist 
  Stephanus Versluys (1694–1736) the 21st Governor of Dutch Ceylon
  Reynier de Klerck (1710–1780) Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1778/1780
  Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel (1736–1800) was Grand Pensionary of Zeeland
  Piet Meertens (1899–1985) a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology
  Etty Hillesum (1914 – 1943 in Auschwitz) the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries
  Albert de Vries (born 1955) a Dutch politician, alderman of Middelburg 2002/2012
  Harald Bergmann (born 1965) a Dutch politician, Mayor of Middelburg since 2012
caption: Cecil Arthur Hoare ca.1930
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