Nettes, Johannes (1707-1777)

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Johannes Nettes, who was born 1707 at Alkmaar and died 1777 at Leiden, was a physician at Middelburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland, and an elder of the local Mennonite congregation 1729-1772. In 1742 he obtained his medical degree at the University of Leiden. He was renowned as an oculist and eye surgeon. He operated on the eye of a princess of Orange. In 1772 he retired from the ministry, moved to Leiden, and devoted himself to the practice of medicine.

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Nagtglas, Frederik. Levensberichten van Zeeuwen: zijnde een vervolg op P. de la Rue, Geletterd, staatkundig en heldhaftig Zeeland Middelburg, 1888-1893: v. II, 268.


Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1957

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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Nettes, Johannes (1707-1777)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Nettes,_Johannes_(1707-1777)&oldid=108956.

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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Nettes, Johannes (1707-1777). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Nettes,_Johannes_(1707-1777)&oldid=108956.



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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 844; vol. 4, p. 1147. All rights reserved.


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