Pieter Otto van der Chijs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pieter Otto van der Chijs

Dutch coin collector and expert

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1802

Place of Birth: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1867

Profession: university teacher, numismatist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Pieter Otto van der Chijs

  • Pieter Otto van der Chijs (Delft, 11 August 1802 – Leiden, 4 November 1867) was a Dutch coin expert and one of the early prizewinners of Teylers Tweede Genootschap (Teylers Second or Scientific Society). He was the son of J.
  • van der Chijs and A.S.
  • Bagelaar who encouraged him to start collecting.
  • At the age of nine became interested in coins when he studied the ones his parents donated to the poor of Delft each week.
  • He began to collect coins from around the world.
  • After following school in Delft, he became a student of letters at the University of Leiden in 1820.
  • He won a few prizes before devoting himself to his hobby.
  • He wrote an essay on the art of collecting old coins in 1829 and in 1831 he became a member of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy.
  • In 1833 he started the coin magazine "Tijdschrift voor algemeene munt- en penningkunde". In 1835 he was appointed director with the honorary title of "Professor Extraordinarius" of the coin cabinet Penningkabinet der Hoogeschool in Leiden. The Teylers Second Society announced a prize in 1841 for 'a compilation of coins under former Dutch dukes, counts, lords and cities, from the earliest times up to 1576'.
  • Chijs had already started work correcting the work of Cornelis van Alkemade who had published an incomplete list in 1700.
  • This prize question could never be completed in the time allotted, but Chijs was granted a year's extension in 1844 and when he published his De munten der voormalige hertogdommmen Braband en Limburg, he was awarded a prize medal on 4 December 1846.In 1862 he published his last work Notice sur le Cabinet Numismatique de l'Universite de Leyde, which was a catalogue of his cabinet.

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