Ruysch or Ruijsch is a
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patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name ''Ruis''.
Ruis
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Variant forms are ''Ruijs Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name ''Ruis''. Variant forms are ''Ruijsch'', ''Ruis'', ''Ruisch'' and '' Ruysch''. People with the surname include:
*Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacteri ...
'', ''Ruis'' and ''Ruisch''. People with the surname include:
* Johannes Ruysch (c.1460–1533), Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
** Ruysch Map of the World, his 1507 map, second to show the New World
* Frederik Ruysch
Frederik Ruysch (; March 28, 1638 – February 22, 1731) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His ana ...
(1638—1731), Dutch doctor and anatomist, remembered for his developments in anatomical preservation
* Rachel Ruysch
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful caree ...
(1664—1750), Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers, daughter of Frederik Ruysch
* Anna Ruysch
Anna Ruysch (baptized 19 December 1666, in The Hague – buried 7 January 1754, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Life
Anna Ruysch (sometimes called Anna Elisabeth Ruysch) was the daughter of Maria Post and Frederik Ruysch, a ...
(1666–1741), Dutch flower painter, daughter of Frederik Ruysch
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