- First name
- Timotheus
- Last name
- Hoorn, ten
- Date of Birth
- 1644
- Date of Death
- 1715
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Died in
- Amsterdam
In the spring of 1697, bookdealer Timotheus ten Hoorn was subpoenaed by the Amsterdam bailiff for the illegal selling a copy of NS: ‘is gecogt seeker boek in quarto gebonden in een gemormert papier zijnde geintituleerd de naegelate Schriften van Benedictus de Spinosa’ (a certain book is purchased in quarto in marbled paper entitled ‘De nagelate schriften’ by Benedictus de Spinoza’; Peeters, 1982, p. 242). The book was sold for the high price of five guilders and five stuivers. Presumably, this indicates that the banned work had already grown into a collectors’s item. How the affair worked out for Timotheus ten Hoorn is unknown. See: Van Eeghen, 1960–78, vol. 3, p. 165.