WILLEM See also:

• WILLEM BILDERDIJK (1756–1831)

BILDERDIJK (1756–1831)  , Dutch poet, the son of an See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam physician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 7th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1756 . When he was six years old an See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident to his See also:

• FOOT

foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed habits of continuous and concentrated study . His parents were ardent partisans of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

Orange, and See also:

• BILDERDIJK, WILLEM (1756–1831)

Bilderdijk See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions . He was, says Da See also:

• COSTA, GIOVANNI (1826–1903)
• COSTA, LORENZO (146o-r535)
• COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS (1808-1884)

Costa, " See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-revolutionary, anti-Barneveldtian, anti-Loevesteinish, anti-liberal." After studying at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden University, he obtained his doctorate in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law in 1782, and began to practise as an See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague . Three years later he contracted an unhappy See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage with Rebecca Woesthoven . He refused in 1795 to take the See also:

• OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath to the new See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, and was consequently obliged to leave See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland . He went to See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, and then to See also:

• LONDON

London, where his See also:

• GREAT

great learning procured him See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration . There he had as a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil Katharina See also:

• WILHELMINA (SOPHIA FRIDERIKA WILHELMINA) (1709-1758)
• WILHELMINA [WILHELMINA HELENA PAULINE MARIA OF ORANGE-NASSAU] (188o– )

Wilhelmina Schweickhardt (1776–1830), the daughter of a Dutch painter and herself a poet . When he See also:

• LEFT

left London in See also:

• JUNE

June 1797 for Braunschweig, this See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady followed him, and after he had formally divorced his first wife (1802) they were married . In 18o6 he was persuaded by his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends to return to Holland . He was kindly received by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon, who made him his librarian, and a member and eventually See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president (1809-1811) of the Royal See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute . After the See also:

• ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

abdication of Louis Napoleon he suffered great poverty; on the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William of Orange in 1813 he hoped to be made a See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, but was disappointed and became a See also:

• HISTORY

history See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor at Leiden .

He continued his vigorous See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign against liberal ideas to his See also:

• DEATH

death, which took See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place at See also:

• HAARLEM

Haarlem on the 18th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1831 . A picture of the Bilderdijk See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household is given in the letters (vol. v., 185o) of See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey, who stayed some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time with Bilderdijk in 1825 . Madame Bilderdijk had translated See also:

• RODERICK

Roderick into Dutch (1823–1824) . For his See also:

• WORK

work as a poet see DUTCH LITERATURE . His many-sided activity showed itself also in See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism—Geschiedenis See also:

• DES

des Vaderlands (1832–1851, 13 vols.), a conservative commentary on Wagenaar's Vaderlandsche h istorie; in See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from See also:

• SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles (1779 and 1789), of See also:

• PART

part of the Iliad, of the See also:

• HYMNS

hymns and epigrams of See also:

• CALLIMACHUS

Callimachus, and from the Latin poets; in See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology—See also:

• TAAL

Taal en Dichtkundige Verscheidenheden (1820–1825, 4 vols.); and in See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama—the tragedies, See also:

• FLORIS, FRANS

Floris de Vijfde (,8o8), Willem I. See also:

• VAN

van Holland (18o8), and others . His most important poetical See also:

• WORKS

works are the didactic poem, De Ziekte der geleerden (" The Disease of the Learned "), 2 vols., 1807; a descriptive poem in the manner of See also:

• DELILLE, JACQUES (1738–1813)

Delille in Het Buitenleven (1803); and his fragmentary epic, De Ondergang der eerste wereld (182o) . Other volumes were Mijne Verlustigung (Leiden, 1781), Bloemtjens (1785), Mengelpoezij (1799, 2 vols.), Poezij (1803–1807, 4 vols.), Mengelingen (1804–18o8, 4vols.), Nieuwe Mengelingen (18'o6,2 vols.), Hollands Verlossing (1813-1814, 2 vols.), Vaderlandsche Uitboezemingen (Leiden, 1815), Winterbloemen (1811, 2 vols.), &c., in some of which his wife collaborated . His poetical works were collected by I. da Costa (Haarlem, 1856-1859, 16 vols.), with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of the poet . See also " Mijne Levensbeschrijving " in Mengelingen en Fragmenten . . . (1834); his Brieven (ed . 1836–1837) by I. da Costa and W .

Messchert; Dr R . A . Kollewijn, Bilderdijk, Zijn See also:

• LEVEN
• LEVEN, ALEXANDER LESLIE, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1580-1661)
• LEVEN, LOCH

Leven en werken . . . (2 vols., 18191) .