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RHIJNVIS See also: born of an aristocratic See also: family at See also: Zwolle, the capital of the province Overijssel, on the 7th of See also: February 1753
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He was educated at Harderwijk and at the university of See also: Leiden, where he took his degree in 1770
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In 1772 he settled at his birthplace, and married
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In 178o, in his twenty-seventh See also: year, he became burgomaster of Zwolle
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He built a luxurious See also: villa, which he named Boschwijk, in the out-skirts of the See also: town, and there he lived in the greatest comfort
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His first important production was Julia, in 1783, a novel written in emulation of Werther, and steeped in Weltschmerz and despair
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This was followed by the tragedy of Thirsa (1784); See also: Ferdinand and
See also: Constantia (1785), another Werther novel; and The Patriots (1784), a tragedy
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See also: Bilderdijk and other writers attacked his morbid melancholy, and Johannes Kinker (1764-1845) parodied his novels, but his vogue continued
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In 1791 he published a tragedy of Lady Jane See also: Grey; in 1792 a didactic poem, The See also: Grave, in four cantos; in 1793 Inez de Castro; in 1796 to 1814 five volumes of Odes and See also: Miscellaneous Poems; and in 1802 Old Age, in six cantos
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He died at Zwolle on the 8th of February 1824
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His See also: works were collected (See also: Rotterdam, II vols.) in 1824, with a See also: biographical See also: notice by N
.
G. See also: van See also: Kampen
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