Jan Six VII

Jan Six (2 February 1857, Amsterdam - 8 December 1926, Amsterdam) was a Dutch art historian. Biography He was a member of the noble Six family, which originated in Lille. His father, Jan Pieter Six (1824-1899), Lord of Hillegom and Wimmenum, was a local administrator and numismatist. His mother, Catharina née Teding van Berkhout (1834-1887), was also from a noble family. From 1875 to 1883, he studied classical literature at the University of Amsterdam. He was also enrolled at the Rijksakademie, and took courses in classical archaeology from Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, at the University of Bonn. In 1885, he obtained his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis The Gorgon, which was sponsored by the art historian, Allard Pierson, and published by R. Kröber-Bakels of Amstelveen. In 1889, after several visits to Rome, he became a private tutor at the university. He was named a professor of general art history at the Rijksakademie in 1890. That same year, he married Hieronijma Maria Antonia Fortuna Bosch Reitz (1867-1951); sister of the painter Gijs Bosch Reitz. They had six children, including the World War II resistance fighter, .