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Baby name story: Tesselschade

Dutch engraver Maria Tesselschade Visccher (1594-1649)
Maria Tesselschade Visccher

The other day, I visited the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam website to admire some Willem Claeszoon Heda paintings. (Here’s more on the name Claeszoon.)

A few clicks later, I was learning about römer drinking glasses, and that led me to a Dutch glass engraver Maria Tesselschade Visccher (b. 1594).

There’s an interesting story behind the name “Tesselschade.” Although, as with Return Meigs, so many versions of the story exist that it’s hard to know which to believe.

The name Tesselschade is made up of two parts: Tessel, which refers to the Dutch island of Texel, and schade, Dutch for “damage.” Sources agree that Tesselschade’s father, Roemer Visscher, was a Dutch merchant whose ships had been caught in a storm off the coast of Texel sometime before her birth. But sources disagree on when the storm happened, how many ships sank, and whether or not Roemer had been aboard one of them and rescued.

Tesselschade ended up having three daughters: Taddea, Maria Tesselschade, and an unnamed third. She outlived all of them. I don’t believe the name was given to any other descendants.

Sources:

  • Carroll, Jane Louise and Alison G. Stewart. Saints, Sinners, and Sisters. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003.
  • “Lights of Dutch Literature.” The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art. May 1854: 134-141.
  • Maria Tesselschade Visscher – Wikipedia
  • Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
  • Sneller, A. Agnes and Olga van Marion. De Gedichten van Tesselschade Roemers. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 1994.