J. V. G. [=Jan van Geuns] Levensberigt van den eerwaardigen heere Cornelis de Vries [getrokken uit den Algemeenen Konst- en Letterbode van Dingsdag 23sten maart 1813]

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Cornelis de Vries (16 August 1740, Koog aan de Zaan – 21 November 1812, Haarlem), was a Mennonite minister. He was educated at the Amsterdam Mennonite seminary and served the congregations of Enschede 1763-1771 and Utrecht 1771-1786, where he started the Utrechtse Courant in 1782, a newspaper he edited himself. He then retired to devote more time to writing and studies and moved to Haarlem in 1788.[1] There he became friendly with Adriaan Loosjes, with whom he started the Algemeene Konst- en Letterbode voor meer of min geoefenden. He first married Alida Reesen, and after she died he married Maria Elisabeth van Vollenhove (1730-1811), the widow of the Remonstrant pastor Jan Verbeek, one of the founding members of Teylers First Society, which he joined himself from 1792. He wrote several religious works, including a catechism for children