- First name
- Johannes
- Last name
- Bredenburg
- Date of Birth
- 1641
- Date of Death
- 1691
- Born in
- Rotterdam
- Died in
- Rotterdam
The Rotterdam wine trader Johannes Bredenburg had no university training. It appears, though, that he was a bright spirit who read translations of the works of Spinoza, Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Meyer (cf. Israel, 2010, p. 94). See: NNBW, vol. 4, cols. 292–3; BLGNP, vol. 3, pp. 56–8; Van Bunge, 1990b, passim; DDP, vol. 1, pp. 155-9.