JOHAN See also:

• VAN

VAN See also:

• JOHAN VAN HEEMSKERK (1597—1656)
• HEEMSKERK, MARTIN JACOBSZ (1498-1574)

HEEMSKERK (1597—1656)  , Dutch poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam in 1597 . He was educated as a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child at See also:

• BAYONNE

Bayonne, and entered the university of See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden in 1617 . In 1621 he went abroad on the See also:

• GRAND

grand tour, leaving behind him his first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of poems, Minnekunst (The See also:

• ART

Art of Love), which appeared in 1622 . He was absent from 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 four years . He was made See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of arts at See also:

• BOURGES

Bourges in 1623, and in 1624 visited See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo See also:

• GROTIUS, HUGO (1583-1645)

Grotius in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . On his return in 1625 he published Minnepligt (The See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

Duty of Love), 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 in the See also:

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

Hague . In 1628 he was sent to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in his legal capacity by the Dutch See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India See also:

• COMPANY

Company, to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle the dispute respecting See also:

• AMBOYNA (Dutch Ambon)

Amboyna . In the same See also:

• YEAR

year he published the poem entitled Minnekunde, or the See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science of Love: He proceeded to Amsterdam in 164o, where he married Alida, See also:

• SISTER

sister of the statesman See also:

• VAN

Van Beuningen . In 1641 he published a Dutch version of See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709)

Corneille's The See also:

• CID, THE

Cid, a tragi-See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, and in 1647 his most famous See also:

• WORK

work, the See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of Batavische See also:

• ARCADIA

Arcadia, which he had written ten years before . During the last twelve years of his See also:

• LIFE

life See also:

• HEEMSKERK, JOHAN VAN (1597—1656)
• HEEMSKERK, MARTIN JACOBSZ (1498-1574)

Heemskerk sat in the upper chamber of the states-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general . He died at Amsterdam on the 27th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1656 . The See also:

• POETRY

poetry of Heemskerk, which See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into oblivion during the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, is once more read and valued .

His famous pastoral, the Batavische Arcadia, which was founded on the Asiree of Honor6 d'Urf6, enjoyed a See also:

• GREAT

great popularity for more than a century, and passed through twelve See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . It provoked a See also:

• HOST

host of more or less able imitations, of which the most distinguished were the Dordrechtsche Arcadia (1663) of See also:

• LAMBERT [alias NICHOLSON], JOHN (d. 1538)
• LAMBERT, DANIEL (1770-1809)
• LAMBERT, FRANCIS (c 1486-153o)
• LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH (1728–1777)
• LAMBERT, JOHN (1619-1694)

Lambert van den See also:

• BOS, LAMBERT (1670—1717)

Bos (1610-1698), the Saanlandsche Arcadia (1658) of Hendrik Sooteboom (1616–1678) and the Rotterdamsche Arcadia (1703) of Willem den Elger (d . 1703) . But the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original work of Heemskerk, in which a party of See also:

• NYMPHS

nymphs and shepherds go out from the Hague to Katwijk, and there indulge in polite and pastoral discourse, surpasses all these in brightness and versatility .