The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Beck, Ida		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	174
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	2262 A, fol. 221 and foll.
Date	1670/07/12
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Purpose	death inventory
Family Name	Beck
Owner Name	Beck, Ida
Owner Notes	widow of the late Otto Badius
Marriage Date	1637/02/18
Type of Ceremony	Reformed church
Occupation	Liberal profession |a Preacher
Residence	Amsterdam
Religion	Calvinist
Introduction	Inventaris van alle de goederen ende middelen naergelaten ende mette doot ontruijmt bij Ida Beck zal. in haer leven weduwe van wijlen domine Otto Badius, Gemaeckt bij mij Adriaen Lock notaris in presentie van de nabes. getugen, ten versoecke van Sr. Melchisedecq Sandra ende Juffr. Johanna Beck echteluijden mitsgaders ten overstaen van Sr. Abraham van Friessem als executeur van den testament van de voors. Ida Beck ende is desen inventaris begonnen den xxvi November anno 1669 ende voltrocken den xii Julij anno 1670 .
Commentary	Otto Badius (1594-1664), from Aachen, was predikant in Amsterdam from 1620 to 1659. He was the first Reformed/Calvinist preacher to preach regularly in German to a flock of German-speaking auditors from Gulik, Cleves, Aachen, and Cologne. In 1630, he married Gertruyd (Giertje) Jans, the daughter of Jan Willemsz. Bogaert (of R 20411). She appeared as Bogers dochter in the satyrical poem by Vondel Een otter in't bolwerk. Otter was of course a pun on Badius's first name (Evenhuis, Ook dat was Amsterdam 1(1965), pp. 274-5). After the death of his first wife, he was again betrothed, on 18 February 1637 (DTB 446/40). He thereby became the neef (actually son-in-law ?) of Pieter Beck, the cousin of the diary writer David Beck. Otto Badius is mentioned three times in David Beck's Spiegel van mijn leven, 1624 (Verloren, 1993). In 1630, predikant Otto Badius officiated at the marriage of Frans Banning Cocq (of Rembrandt Nightwatch fame) with one of the daughters of burgomaster Volckert Overlander. Badius was a strict Calvinist, opposed to dance schools and banquets. He was an opponent of the Peace of Munster of 1648 (Evenhuis, op.cit. p. 275). The predikant Otto Badius paid a tax of 5 f. in 1631 (Kohier, fol. 7vo., p. 3).
Notary	Adriaen Lock
# of Items	72
Montias1 #	94