RHIJNVIS See also:

• RHIJNVIS FEITH (1753-1824)

FEITH (1753-1824)  , Dutch poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of an aristocratic See also:

• FAMILY

family at See also:

• ZWOLLE

Zwolle, the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province Overijssel, on the 7th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1753 . He was educated at Harderwijk and at the university of See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, where he took his degree in 1770 . In 1772 he settled at his birthplace, and married . In 178o, in his twenty-seventh See also:

• YEAR

year, he became burgomaster of Zwolle . He built a luxurious See also:

• VILLA

villa, which he named Boschwijk, in the out-skirts of the See also:

• TOWN

town, and there he lived in the greatest comfort . His first important See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production was Julia, in 1783, a novel written in emulation of Werther, and steeped in Weltschmerz and despair . This was followed by the tragedy of Thirsa (1784); See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand and See also:

• CONSTANTIA

Constantia (1785), another Werther novel; and The Patriots (1784), a tragedy . See also:

• BILDERDIJK, WILLEM (1756–1831)

Bilderdijk and other writers attacked his morbid See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy, and Johannes Kinker (1764-1845) parodied his novels, but his See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue continued . In 1791 he published a tragedy of 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 Jane See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

Grey; in 1792 a didactic poem, The See also:

• GRAVE

Grave, in four cantos; in 1793 Inez de See also:

• CASTRO, INEZ DE (d. 1355)
• CASTRO, JOAO DE (1500-1548)

Castro; in 1796 to 1814 five volumes of Odes and See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Poems; and in 1802 Old See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

Age, in six cantos . He died at Zwolle on the 8th of February 1824 . His See also:

• WORKS

works were collected (See also:

• ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam, II vols.) in 1824, with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

• NOTICE

notice by N . G. See also:

• VAN

van See also:

• KAMPEN

Kampen .