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BIOGRAFÍA
Zacharias Janssen was born in The Hugue Local records seem to
indicate he was born in 1585 although a date of birth as early as 1580
or as late a 1588 are also given. His parents were Hans Martens (who
may have had the occupation of a peddler and Maeyken Meertens,
both probably from Antwerp Belgium. He grew up with his sister Sara
in Middelburg, at the time the second most important city of the
Netherlands. He was known as a "street seller" who was constantly in
trouble with the local authorities.
He stated he was born in The Hague on the marriage file of his first
marriage, with Catharina de Haene, on October 23, 1610. When this
file was refound by Cornelis de Waard in 1906, De Waard found the
following excerpt: Sacharias Jansen, j.g. uut Den Haag, "Zacharias
Jansen, bachelor from The Hague Before, it was often thought that
Janssen was a native of Middelburg. In 1612, Zacharias and Catharina
had a son they named Johannes Zachariassen.
In 1615 Zacharias was appointed guardian of two children of Lowys
Lowyssen "geseyt Henricxen brilmakers" (called Henry the spectacle
maker). It is surmised that Zacharias also took possession of Lowys
Lowyssen's spectacle-making tools because the first record of
Zacharias Janssen being a spectacle maker appears in 1616. The
family had to move to Arnemuiden in 1618 after Zacharias's
counterfeiting activities were exposed. There Zacharias was again
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