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JAN FREDERIK HELMERS (1767-1813)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAN FREDERIK See also:HELMERS (1767-1813)  , Dutch poet, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam on the 7th of See also:March 1767 . His See also:early poems, See also:Night (1788) and See also:Socrates (1790), were tame and sentimental, but after 1805 he determined, in See also:company with his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Cornelis Loots (1765-1834), to rouse See also:national feeling by a burst of patriotic See also:poetry . His Poems (2 vols., I8o9-18I0), but especially his See also:great See also:work The Dutch Nation, a poem in six cantos (1812), created great See also:enthusiasm and enjoyed immense success . See also:Helmers died at Amsterdam on the 26th of See also:February 1813 . He owed his success mainly to the integrity of his patriotism and the opportune moment at which he sounded his counterblast to the See also:French oppression . His See also:posthumous poems were collected in 1815 .

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