Aleida Leurink (Enschede, 24 September 1682 - Losser, 6 August 1755) was a Dutch pastor's wife who became known for the notebooks she kept for 57 years which are giving a clear picture of the time when she lived.
[1] Together with her sisters, Geeske, Catharina, and Judith and brother Georgius, she was entrusted to the care of her uncle, Jan Stroink.
[2] At the age of fifteen, she married the then twenty-eight-year-old Henricus Keller, a vicar in Losser on 9 March 1698. heb ik in een boekske neergeschreven Zoodat op mijnen ouden dag Geheel mijn leven voor mij lag."
The diary of Aleida Leurink was made accessible to a broad public at the beginning of the 20th century by J.J. van Deinse who started writing about it in the Dutch regional paper Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia.
Because Aleida wrote for 57 years, her notebooks give a clear picture of life at that time.