Anton van leeuwenhoek biography timeline example

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch scientist, naturalist, businessman and microscopist. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek discovered small creatures such as bacteria, protozoa, parasitic and free-living protists, blood cells, sperm cells, rotifers, nematodes, hydra and volvox by his own handcrafted microscope.

Leeuwenhoek&#;s father Antonisz Van Leeuwenhoek was a basket maker and his maternal family was connected with the business of brewers.

Antonie van leeuwenhoek discovery of cells

Antonie&#;s father died when he was only five years old.

After the death of his father, Antonie&#;s mother remarried Jacob Jansz Molijn, a painter by profession. His step-father died when he was only ten years old.

On 29 July , Antonie married Barbara de Mey a draper’s daughter from Norwich England.

In , his wife died and had five children.

On 25 January , Leeuwenhoek remarried and his wife was the daughter of a Calvinist minister and she died in