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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
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HELMERS (1767-1813)  , Dutch poet, was
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born at
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Amsterdam on the 7th of
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March 1767 . His
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early poems,
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Night (1788) and
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Socrates (1790), were tame and sentimental, but after 1805 he determined, in
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company with his
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brother-in-
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law, Cornelis Loots (1765-1834), to rouse
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national feeling by a burst of patriotic
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poetry . His Poems (2 vols., I8o9-18I0), but especially his
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great
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work The Dutch Nation, a poem in six cantos (1812), created great
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enthusiasm and enjoyed immense success .
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Helmers died at Amsterdam on the 26th of
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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
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French oppression . His
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posthumous poems were collected in 1815 .

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