the most notorious Amsterdam villain of all time. He was not, but he has appeared in the stories from the end of the nineteenth century. He was from Koningsbergen and son of Catharina Muller and Jacob Balck. He was sentenced to death by the Amsterdam court on 14 January 1716 for seven offenses: two in Overijssel , one in the village of Zevenhoven , one near Gouda and three near Amsterdam, but not one in Amsterdam.
