Education
Leiden University.
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Johan Johan van Brosterhuysen
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At age 14 he was registered as a gownsman on 3 June 1610 at Leiden University, his native city. His interest was botany, but he was unable to acquire a teaching position in that field and took a position as secretary at Heusden Castle. He died in Breda in September 1650.
He translated from English as well, and his translation of Francis Godwin"s The Manitoba in the Moone went through six printings between 1645 and 1700.
He is credited with sixteen landscape etchings made, apparently, at Randenbroek, the country estate of artist and architect Jacob van Campen near Amersfoort. His landscapes display "with a distinctive sensibility towards trees and foliage and few indications of human presence".
Membership
A member of the Muiderkring, the arts and sciences coterie whose central figure was P. C. Hooft, he was known as a "dilettante" with an interest in natural philosophy (the work of Francis Bacon) and a classical scholar, and his interest in literature is proven in his scattered poems, one of which a translation of Petrarch"s Sonnet 213, "Grazie ch’a pochi il ciel largo destina".
