- First name
- Joachim
- Last name
- Nieustadt
- Date of Birth
- [1623/4]
- Date of Death
- 1696
- Born in
- Utrecht
- Died in
- -
Joachim Nieustadt was born in Utrecht in a house of what is now Janskerkhof 25. He studied medicine in Utrecht (1643) and Leiden (1644). He befriended by the Amsterdam Burgomaster Johannes Hudde. He owned (1665–85/6) the manor ‘Groot Noorthuijzen’ in the judicial safe haven of Wijk (near Wijk bij Duurstede where he was appointed Burgomaster in 1681). He was the author of Authentycke copyen der resolutien, van de … Heeren Burgermeesteren ende Vroedschap der stad Utrecht …, Utrecht, 1665. See on Nieustadt: Huygens, Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, pp. 453–4, vol. 7, pp. 58–9 (Hudde to Huygens, 21 and 22 April 1671); Van Maanen, 1983.
It is possible that Spinoza visited Nieustadt during his stay in Utrecht in 1673. Spinoza’s letter (1675.[09-11].00*) to Lambert van Velthuysen in any case proves that they remained in touch after his return to The Hague.