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Johan de Witt, ovvero Jan de Witt, è stato un politico e matematico olandese. Figura chiave nella politica della Repubblica delle Sette Province Unite, nel periodo che va sotto il nome di Secolo d'oro olandese. Con lo zio Cornelis de Graeff, de Witt ha dominato le istituzioni olandesi del tempo.
Johan de Witt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːɦɑn də ˈʋɪt]; 24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672), Lord of Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp en IJsselvere, was a Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century, the First Stadtholderless Period, when its flourishing sea trade in a ...
21 mag 2018 · Johan de Witt was a powerful leader of the Dutch Republic who opposed the House of Orange and negotiated peace with England. He was killed and torn apart by a mob in 1672 after the French invasion, while his brother Cornelis was tortured and imprisoned.
- Kara Goldfarb
3 giorni fa · Johan De Witt was one of the foremost European statesmen of the 17th century who as councillor pensionary (the political leader) of Holland (1653–72) guided the United Provinces in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch wars (1652–54, 1665–67) and consolidated the nation’s naval and commercial power.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Uomo politico olandese (Dordrecht 1625 - L'Aia 1672), figlio di Jacob. Gran pensionario d'Olanda (più volte dal 1653), stipulò la Triplice Alleanza ma non riuscì a scongiurare l'isolamento dell'Olanda e l'attacco da parte di una coalizione costituita da Francia ed Inghilterra (1672).
Johan de Witt. Profession: Statesman and Advisor of Holland. Nationality: Dutch. Biography: De Witt was a Dutch political figure during what has come to be called the Dutch Golden Age; when during the 1600s, the Dutch were a major commercial and naval power.
Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who led the republican regime of Holland from 1653 to 1672. He defended the rights of Holland against the Prince of Orange and England, but was assassinated by an Orangeist mob during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
