Janszoon

Janszoon usually abbreviated to Jansz was a Dutch patronym ("son of Jan"). While Janse, Janssens, and especially Jansen and Janssen, are very common surnames derived from this patronym, the form Jansz is quite rare and Janszoon itself does not exist in the Netherlands.[1] People with this name or its variants include:

As a surname

In lieu of a surname

  • Jan Janssonius (1588–1664), also known as Jan Janszoon, Dutch cartographer
  • Jan Janszoon (1570–1641), first President and Grand Admiral of the Corsair Republic of Salè, Governor of Oualidia, and a Dutch pirate
  • Willem Janszoon (1570–1630), Dutch navigator and colonial governor, is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia

As a patronym

Since "Jan" was the most common given name in the Netherlands for many centuries, the patronym was exceedingly common. To name a few:

See also

  • Janszoon voyage of 1605-6 made the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent in 1606, sailing from Bantam, Java in the Duyfken
  • Project Laurens Janszoon Coster, collection of Dutch high literature on the web
  • The Jansz, Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged two years old, at set weights with penalties, over a distance of 1200 metres

References

  1. ↑ Jansz at the Meertens Institute database of surnames in the Netherlands.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.