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Benjamin Jacob Cohen, birth ± 1758 Amsterdam, died 26 Oct 1808 Amsterdam, son of Jacob Philip Cohen and Eva Jonas Cohen
Poet, linguist. Author of the text on the portrait of JJ van Haren geb Beaumont 1799, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-23.467
"Tafereel van het rampzalig ongeval, op den 12 januarij des jaars 1807, door het in de lucht springen van een vaartuig met buskruid, aan de beroemde stad Leyden overgekomen" 1807.
"Ode, presentee a Sa Majeste Louis Napoleon, Roi de Hollande, a son arrivee a Amsterdam ..." 1808 (in French and Hebrew)
Teacher of languages Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Fraench, English, "Hoog- en Nederduitsche Taalen", also Italian Bookkeeping. (Advert Amsterdamsche Courant 23-05-1807)

Married 7 Aug 1803 Amsterdam, Benjamin Cohen Jacobs & Lea van Gelder declare the child Evaatje Cohen, born 10th August 1798, to be theirs, and legitimize her by this marriage. to:
Lea van Gelder, birth ± 1774 Den Haag
1) Eva Benjamin Cohen, birth 10 Aug 1798 Amsterdam, died 29 Aug 1819 Amsterdam, Registered 30 Apr 1819 the death on the 29th of Eva Benjamin Cohen Jacobs at the Achtergracht near the Weesperplein, age 21 jaar, born in Amsterdam, unmarried daughter of Benjamin Cohen Jacobs and Lea van Gelder. Informants Ezechiel Cohen Jacobs , teacher, age 60 at the Weesperveld, uncle of the deceased and Benjamin Moresco, no occupation, age 53 at the Roeters IJland, acquaintance (brother in law of aunt Engel Cohen Jacobs)
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