J.C.M. Warnsinck (11 November 1882,

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- 21 July 1943,

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) was a Dutch naval officer and naval historian. Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck was the son of the notary Cornelis Warnsinck and his wife, Tettje Halbertsma. He entered the Royal Naval Academy at

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in 1899 and was commissioned an officer in the

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in 1903, eventually rising to the rank of captain in 1930. In 1919, he married Catarina Elisabeth Delprat and they had one son and a daughter. He saw naval service in the East and West Indies as well as in European waters. In the Royal Netherlands Navy, he was a hydrographic specialist. From about 1920, he began to be interested in naval history and began with a special interest in the three Anglo-Dutch wars (1652-1674). He retired from active service in 1932 and devoted the remainder of his life to the study of Dutch

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. Warnsinck became a key pioneer for the academic study of maritime history in The Netherlands. In 1933, he was appointed a lecturer at the

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and additionally at

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in 1937. In 1939, he became Professor of Maritime History at

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. For many years, he was on the Council of the and Secretary of the Commission for maritime history of the

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. In 1938, he was elected an associate member of the Académie de Marine in Paris.''Ibid.''

Works

*''De retourvloot van

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(Kerstmis 1664-Najaar 1665)'' (1929) *''Reisen van Nicolaus de Graaff, gedaan naar alle gewesten des werelds, beginnende 1639 tot 1687 incluis'' (1930) * '' Admiraal de Ruyter, de zeeslag op Schooneveld'' (1930). *''De geschiedenis van ons zeewezen : rede uitgesproken bij de opening zijner lessen in de geschiedenis van het zeewezen op den 30sten Mei 1933'' (1933). *''De vloot van den Konig-Stadhouder 1689-1690'' (1934). *''De kweekschool voor de Zeevaart en de Stuurmanskunst, 1785-1935'' (1935). *''De wetenschappelijke voorbereiding van onze eerste schipvaart naar Oost-Indië'' (1936). *'' Abraham Crijnssen: de verovering van

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en zijn aanslag op Virginië in 1667'' (1936). *''Iaerlyck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie in derthien boecken'' (1931–37) *''

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: generaal in dienst der West-Indische Compagnie, luitenant-admiraal van Holland, 1577-1629'' (1937) *''De kapiteinsjaren van Maerten Harpertszoon Tromp'' (1938) *''Drie zeventiende-eeuwsche admiraals:

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, Jan Evertsen'' (1938, 1943, 1976) *''Itinerario: voyage ofte schipvaert van

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naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, 1579-1592; *Dl. 4-5*Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers / uitg. door J.C.M. Warnsinck'' (1939) *''De zeeoorlog van Holland en Zeeland tegen de Wendische steden der Duitse Hanze 1438-1441'' (1939) *''Een mislukte aanslag op Nederlands Brazilië, 1639-1640'' (1940) *''Twaalf doorluchtige zeehelden'' (1941) *''De reis om de wereld van

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, 1614-1617'' (1943) *''Straat- en bochtvaarders : zijnde het korte historiael ende journaels aenteyckeninge van drie voyagiens''(1943)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warnsinck, J.C.M 1882 births 1943 deaths People from Opmeer 20th-century Dutch historians Dutch naval historians Dutch maritime historians Academic staff of Leiden University