Jan Wagenaar

Jan Wagenaar (25 October 1709 – 1 March 1773) was a Dutch historian, best known for his contributions to Tegenwoordige staat van nederland and Vaderlandsche Historie.

He was apprenticed to a Catholic merchant and later became a wood trader, but having trained himself in historical subjects through intense reading of the classics, he became a writer.

This work is on the list of 1000 most important texts in the Canon of Dutch Literature.

[1] Jacobus Houbraken made numerous engravings for these books, that were published by Isaak Tirion of Amsterdam.

In addition to Vaderlandsche historie, he also wrote descriptions of the United States, the Netherlands (Amsterdam.