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work_ujftqaw7u5bnri7p4ju7kvgbjy	HENK LOOIJESTEIJN	Funding and founding private charities: Leiden almshouses and their founders, 1450–1800	2012	41	.pdf	application/pdf	18116	1656	75	This article presents a case study of the founders of almshouses for the elderly in the Dutch city of Leiden during the late middle ages and the early Next, a prosopography of Leiden's almshouse founders is presented, and reasons for founding almshouses discussed, focusing and 1690, coinciding with Leiden's Golden Age. After this peak, almshouse foundations quickly declined in number, especially after the 1720s. It has been estimated that in 1749 Leiden's almshouses housed 556 persons.22 Many of them were single men and women, widows or couples The Leiden case study is based on 34 almshouse foundations, also nine married couples acting as joint founders, while the Hofje van only founded two almshouses, but also acted as regent of the Hofje van Prominent monumental almshouses in Leiden are the Hofje van of Leiden's almshouse founders suggests that they were likely to be male As for why almshouses were founded, Leiden founders could have been	./cache/work_ujftqaw7u5bnri7p4ju7kvgbjy.pdf	./txt/work_ujftqaw7u5bnri7p4ju7kvgbjy.txt