Harmen Jansz Muller

Publisher and engraver in Amsterdam, son of Jan Ewoutsz. Engraver and print publisher, he was responsible for printing and publishing more than a hundred books as well as a substantial amount of work for the authorities, including decrees, statutes and ordinances. Harmen learned the book and print trade from his father at an early age and he turned it into a flourishing, profitable and well-run enterprise. He received an octroi from the stadholder, and was officially a printer as of 1570. He was also a member of the Guilde of St Luke and he had connections with the rhetoric chamber 'De Eglantier' where he met Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. He was active as a printer and publisher until his death in 1617. Muller published many of his own engravings as well as those of his son, Jan Harmensz. Muller (q.v.).