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GUILLAUME GROEN See also:VAN PRINSTERER (1801-1876)  , Dutch politician and historian, was See also:born at Voorburg, near the See also:Hague, on the 21st of See also:August 18or . He studied at See also:Leiden university, and graduated in 1823 both as See also:doctor of literature and LL.D . From 1829 to 1833 he acted as secretary to See also:King See also:William I. of See also:Holland, afterwards took a prominent See also:part in Dutch See also:home politics, and gradually became the See also:leader of the so-called See also:anti-revolutionary party, both in the Second Chamber, of which he was for many years a member, and outside . In Groen the doctrines of See also:Guizot and See also:Stahl found an eloquent exponent . They permeate his controversial and See also:political writings and See also:historical studies, of which his Handbook of Dutch See also:History (in Dutch) and See also:Maurice et Barnevelt (in See also:French, 1875, a See also:criticism of See also:Motley's See also:Life of See also:Van Olden-Barnevelt) are the See also:principal . Groen was violently opposed to See also:Thorbecke, whose principles he denounced as ungodly and revolutionary . Although he lived to see these principles See also:triumph, he never ceased to oppose them until his See also:death, which occurred at the Hague on the 19th of May 1876 . He is best known as the editor of the Archives et correspondance de la maison d'See also:Orange (12 vols., 1835-1845), a See also:great See also:work of patient erudition, which procured for him the See also:title of the " Dutch See also:Gachard." J . L . Motley acknowledges his indebtedness to Groen's Archives in the See also:preface to his Rise of the Dutch See also:Republic, at a See also:time when the See also:American historian had not yet made the acquaintance of King William's archivist, and also See also:bore emphatic testimony to Groen's See also:worth as a writer of history in the See also:correspondence published after his death . At the first reception, in 1858, of Motley at the royal See also:palace at the Hague, the king presented him with a copy of Groen's Archives as a token of appreciation and admiration of the work done by the " worthy vindicator of William I., See also:prince of Orange." This copy, bearing the king's autograph inscription, afterwards came into the See also:possession of See also:Sir William See also:Vernon See also:Harcourt, Motley's son-in-See also:law .

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