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Harman Jansz Muller

Dutch, 1540-1617

Biography

Dutch, 1540-1617
Nationality: Dutch
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Bibliography:
Orenstein, Nadine M. Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland. p. 18.
New Hollstein

Bio: Publisher and engraver in Amsterdam, son of Jan Ewoutsz. Engraver and print publisher, he was also responsable for printing and publishing more than a hundred books as well as a substantial amount of work for the authorieties, including decrees, statutes and ordenances. Harmen learned the book and print trade from his father at an early age and he turned it into a flourishing, profitable and well-run enterprise. He recived an octroi from the stadholder, and was officially a printer as of 1570. He was also a member of the Guilde of St. Luke and he had connections with the rethoric chambre 'De Eglantier' where he met Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. He was active as a printer and publisher until his death in 1617 printing and publishing protestant and catolic subjects. Muller published many of his own engravings as well as those of his son, Jan Harmensz Muller.