# Johannes Bouwmeester

- id: johannes-bouwmeester
- dates: 1634–1680
- roles: translator

Amsterdam physician, close friend of Spinoza and co-founder of the literary society Nil Volentibus Arduum. The anonymous 1672 Dutch Hayy ibn Yaqzan is usually laid at his door, without proof.

## Crossings

- 1672: Hayy ibn Yaqzan into Dutch (translator) [disputed]

## Sources

- Russell, G. A. (ed.) (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England.
- Ben-Zaken, Avner (2011). Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism.