Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch historian and bookseller (d. 1816)
Cornelis van der Aa (Leiden, 22 October 1749 – Amsterdam, 1816) was a bookseller in Haarlem when he was convicted in 1796 by the schepenen of the city to five years imprisonment and consecutive perpetual exile from the department Holland for political reasons as a follower of the stadtholders. At the end of 1799, he was released and settled in Utrecht as a bookseller. From then on until his death in 1816 in Amsterdam, where he moved to later on, he spent his time writing books.