Famous People with Name Cornelis

Cornelis Musch            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis Musch: was Griffier (Chief Clerk) of the States-General of the Netherlands, the governing body of the Dutch Republic, from 1628 till the start of the First Stadtholderless Period. He was a byword for corruption in his lifetime.Cornelis Musch was the son of Jan Jacobsz. Musch, a rich Rotterdam herring merchant, and Maritge Cornelisd. Matelieff, a merchant of fishing tackle, and so rich in her own right that she was able to buy the Heerlijkheid of Waalsdorp. Lord of Waalsdorp was therefore the first aristocratic title Musch was able to use (1635). He later also acquired other lordships: Nieuwveen (1648), Carnisse (1649) and Opvelt and Muylstede (1650).

Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk: was a Dutch jurist and politician who was governor general of the Dutch East Indies from 1888 until 1893.

Cornelis Lievense            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis Lievense: was a Dutch businessman who ran several import/export companies in the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.During his career in the United States, Lievense was the President or director of a number of import/export companies and banks, most notably the Union Banking Corporation, whose assets were seized by the United States government in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act and the Domestic Fuel Corporation, which was blacklisted by the Canadian government in 1940 for similar suspicions.[1]

Cornelis (Kees) Andrea            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis (Kees) Andrea: was a Dutch artist. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Primarily a graphic artist, he also worked in textiles.

Cornelis Pronk            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis Pronk: was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and porcelain designer. He is known particularly for his numerous drawings of cities, towns, and buildings (so-called topographical drawings), as well as his porcelain designs.For many years, Pronk toured the Dutch Republic in summer, usually on foot, to sketch views of cities, towns, and landscapes, as well as castles, stately homes and other buildings, documenting in detail when and where each sketch was made. Each of these field sketches would form the basis for one or several drawings,