Editing Laurens Janszoon Coster (section)

==400th anniversary==
[[File:Charles Frederick Ulrich - typesetter at Enschede Haarlem.jpg|thumb|left|Typesetter at the Enschede printing factory (was located behind the [[St. Bavochurch]]) in 1884, painting by the American artist [[Charles Frederic Ulrich]]. At this time the story was already considered antiquated.]]
[[File:Haarlem-Coster Monument-Haarlemmerhout.jpg|thumb|Haarlemmerhout monument to Coster erected in 1823. His gravestone was never found, so this monument was a substitute memorial.]]
In 1823 Haarlem celebrated the 400th anniversary of Coster's invention with a monument in the [[Haarlemmerhout]]. The monument is decorated with Latin inscriptions and a memorial text in Dutch, with symbolic "A" decorations at the top. The celebration was organized by [[Abraham de Vries (minister)|Abraham de Vries]], a Coster fan who became Haarlem's first librarian in 1821 and who received a commission from the city fathers to acquire ''Costeriana'', or material relating to Coster's claim to fame.<ref>[http://www.debibliotheekhaarlem.nl/Geschiedenis More than 400 years of reading:] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105111056/http://www.debibliotheekhaarlem.nl/geschiedenis |date=2010-11-05 }} History of the [[Haarlem Public Library]]</ref> De Vries was supported by the professor and city council member [[David Jacob van Lennep]], who believed the legend and sponsored De Vries by obtaining funds from the city council for the monument. In the period after the [[Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition|Flanders Campaign]] which led to the French occupation of the Netherlands from 1794 to 1815, Haarlem's economy was severely depressed and the city council sought a local hero. In 1817, Van Lennep (who was in the city council at the time) had also placed the monument [[De Naald (Heemstede)]] at his own home in nearby Heemstede.