Louise Sophie Blussé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLouise Sophie Blussé
Dutch writer
Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1801
Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 01-Apr-1896
Profession: writer
Nationality: Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Louise Sophie Blussé
- Louise Sophie Blussé (pen name, D.N.
- Anagrapheus; 12 January 1801 – 1 April 1896) was a Dutch writer. Born in Leiden in 1801, Blussé was the daughter of Abraham Blussé and Jeanne Petronella Maizonnet.
- Her father was an editor and school inspector, and a proponent of the Walloon church.
- Blussé married the historian and archaeologist Caspar Reuvens in Leiden on 19 July 1822.
- They had three children.
- After the death of Reuvens in 1835, Blussé lived with her parents' family in Leiden, and they collaborated on the creation of a pocket dictionary in two volumes, English-Dutch and Dutch-English, which were published in the years 1843 and 1845 respectively.Around 1860, Blussé met Maria Leer (died 1866), who was living in a Leiden almshouse.
- Leer had been one of the founders of Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters (Zwijndrecht New Lighters), a Dutch Protestant sect, which had established a commune within a boatbuilder's yard near Zwijndrecht earlier in the century.
- Blussé made notes of her conversations with Leer, and more than 25 years after Leer's death, Blussé decided to publish Leer's memoir.
- Using the pen name, D.N.
- Anagrapheus, Blussé published the work under the title "De Zwijndrechtsche nieuwlichters (1816-1832) volgens de gedenkschriften van Maria Leer", with a foreword by the Arminian preacher Jan Hendrik Maronier (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1892).
- At the time of publication, Blussé was 91 years old.
- In an 1892 article in De Gids, professor Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack (1834-1917) stated that, based on Blussé's description, Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters could be characterized as a form of religious communism.Blussé died in April 1896 at the age of 95 in her hometown of Leiden.
- The biologist and professor Hugo de Vries was a grandson of hers.
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