PIETER CORNELISSEN See also:HOOFT (1581-1647)
, Dutch poet and historian, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam on the 16th of See also:March 1581
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His See also:father was one of the leading citizens of 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, both in politics and in the patronage of letters, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time burgomaster of Amsterdam
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As See also:early as 1598 the See also:young See also:man was made a member of the chamber of See also:rhetoric In Liefde bloeiende, and produced before that See also:body his tragedy of See also:Achilles and See also:Polyxena, not printed until 1614
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In See also:June 1 598 he See also:left Holland and proceeded to See also:Paris, where on the loth of See also:April 1599 he saw the body of Gabrielle d'See also:Estrees lying in See also:state
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He went a few months later to See also:Venice, See also:Florence and See also:Rome, and in 1600 to See also:Naples
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During his See also:Italian sojourn he made a deep and fruitful study of the best literature of See also:Italy
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In See also:July 1600 he sent See also:home to the In Liefde bloeiende a very See also:fine See also:letter in See also:verse, expressing his aspirations for the development of Dutch See also:poetry
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He returned through See also:Germany, and after an See also:absence of three years and a See also:half found himself in Amsterdam again on the 8th of May 16o1
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In 1602 he brought out his second tragedy, See also:Theseus and See also:Ariadne, printed at Amsterdam in 1614
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In 16o5 he completed his beautiful See also:pastoral See also:drama Granida, not published until 1615
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He studied See also:law and See also:history at See also:Leiden from 16o6 to 1609, and in June of the latter See also:year received from See also:Prince See also:Maurice of See also:Orange the See also:appointment of steward of Muiden, See also:bailiff of Gooiland, and See also:lord of Weesp, a See also:joint See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:great emolument
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He occupied himself with repairing and adorning the decayed See also:castle of Muiden, which was his See also:residence during the See also:remainder of his See also:life
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There he entertained the poet See also:Vondel, the See also:scholar Barlaeus, 1 Constantin See also:Huygens, See also:Vossius, See also:Laurens Reael and others
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IIooft had been a suitor for the See also:hand of See also:Anna See also:Roemer Visscher, and after the See also:death of Roemer Visscher both the sisters visited Muiden
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Anna's sympathies were in time diverted to the school of See also:Jacob See also:Cats, but See also:Marie Tesselschade maintained See also:close ties with See also:Hooft, who revised her See also:translation of See also:Tasso: In See also:August 1610 he married See also:Christina See also:van Erp, an
1 Kaspar van Baerle (1584-1648), See also:professor of rhetoric at Amsterdam, and famous as a Latin poet
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accomplished See also:lady who died in 1623, and four years later he married Eleonora Hellemans
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In 1612 Hooft produced his See also:national tragedy of Geeraerdt van Velzen (pr
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1613), a See also:story of the reign of See also:Count See also:Floris V
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In 1614 was performed at Coster's See also:academy Hooft's See also:comedy of See also:Ware-nar, an See also:adaptation of the Aulularia of See also:Plautus, first printed in 1617
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In 1616 he wrote another tragedy, Baeto, or the Origin of the Dutch, not printed until 1626
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It was in 1618 that he abandoned poetry for history, and in 1626 he published the first of his great See also:prose See also:works, the History of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the Great (Henry IV. of See also:France)
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His next See also:production was his Miseries of the Princes of the See also:House of See also:Medici (Amsterdam, 1638)
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In 1642 he published at Amsterdam a See also:folio comprising the first twenty books of his Dutch History, embracing the See also:period from 1555 to 1585, a magnificent performance, to the perfecting of which he had given fifteen years of labour
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The seven concluding books were published posthumously in 1654
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His See also:idea of history was gained from See also:Tacitus, whose works he translated
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Hooft died on a visit to the See also:Hague, whither he had gone to attend the funeral of Prince See also:Frederick Henry, on the 21st of May 1647, and was buried in the New See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church at Amsterdam
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Hoof t is one of the most brilliant figures that adorn Dutch literature at its best period
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He was the first writer to introduce a See also:modern and See also:European See also:tone into belles lettres, and the first to refresh the See also:sources of native thought from the springs of See also:antique and See also:Renaissance poetry
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His lyrics and his pastoral of Granida are strongly marked by the See also:influence of Tasso and See also:Sannazaro; his later tragedies belong more exactly to the See also:familiar tone of his native See also:country
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But high as Hooft stands among the Dutch poets, he stands higher—he holds perhaps the highest See also:place—among writers of Dutch prose
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His See also:historical See also:style has won the warmest eulogy from so temperate a critic as See also:Motley, and his letters are the most charming ever published in the Dutch See also:language
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After Vondel, he may on the whole be considered the most considerable author that Holland has produced
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Hooft's poetical and dramatic works were collected in two volumes (1871, 1875) by P
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Leendertz
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His letters were edited by B
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Huydecoper (Leiden, 1738) and by van Vloten (Leiden, 4 vols., 1855)
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The best See also:original See also:account of Hooft is given by G
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Brandt in his See also:Leven van P
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C
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Hooft (1677), and his funeral address (1647), edited together by J
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C
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Matthes (See also:Groningen, 1874)
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There is an account of the See also:Maiden circle in See also:Edmund See also:Gosse's Literatures of See also:Northern See also:Europe
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Many See also:editions exist of his prose works
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