See also:JAN See also:VAN [See also:JANUS BROUKHUSIUs] See also:BROEKHUIZEN (1649-1707)
, Dutch classical See also:scholar and poet, was See also:born on the 20th of See also:November 1649, at See also:Amsterdam
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Having lost his See also:father when very See also:young, he was placed with an See also:apothecary, with whom he lived several years
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Not liking this employment, he entered the See also:army, and in 1674 was sent with his See also:regiment to See also:America, in the See also:fleet under See also:Admiral de Ruyter, but returned to 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 the same See also:year
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In 1678 he was sent to the See also:garrison at See also:Utrecht, where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated See also:Graevius; here he had the misfortune to be so deeply implicated in a See also:duel that, according to the See also:laws of Holland, his See also:life was forfeited
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Graevius, however, wrote immediately to See also:Nicholas See also:Heinsius, who obtained his See also:pardon
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Not See also:long afterwards he became a See also:captain of one of the companies then at Amsterdam
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After the See also:peace of See also:Ryswick, 1697, his See also:company was disbanded, and he retired on a See also:pension to a See also:country See also:house near Amsterdam and pursued his classical and See also:literary studies at leisure
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His Dutch poems, in which he followed the See also:model of Pieter See also:Hooft, were first published in 1677; a later edition, with a See also:biography by D. See also:van See also:Hoogstraten, appeared in 1712, the last edition, 1883, was edited by R
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Kollewijn
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His classical reputation rests on his See also:editions of See also:Propertius (1702) and See also:Tibullus (1707)
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His Latin poems (Carmina) appeared in 1684; a later edition(Poemata) by D. van Hoogstraten appeared in 1711
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The Select Letters (Jani Browkhusii Epistolae Selectae, 1889 and 1893) were edited by J
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Worp, who also wrote his biography, 1891
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See also:Broekhuizen died on the 15th of See also:December 1707
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