Jacobus Barritius ( - 1709)

Field(s) of interest: scientific instruments | horology
Gender: male


Died: Harlingen, <1709

Biography:
Barritius was a watchmaker in Leeuwarden. He married there in 1653 and, in 1679, moved to Harlingen. He was probably a grandson of Jacob Bourits, alderman (a municipal civic office) of Leeuwarden.

Occupations:
watch maker: ~1679 - <1709 (Harlingen)

watch maker - ~1679 (Leeuwarden)

Sources:
Morpurgo, E. Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300 (Amsterdam 1970).

Ottema, N. 'De ambachtskunst in het oude Leeuwarden', in: Leeuwarden 1435-1935, Gedenkboek (1935), 67.

Ottema, N. Geschiedenis van de uurwerkmakerskunst (Leeuwarden 1948), 71.