biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–34)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied theology in Amsterdam and Leiden, and published his first historical novel, Hermingard van de Eikenterpen (Hermingard of the Oakmounds) in 1832, which expresses his ideal of an evangelic Christianity. In 1834 he founded the magazine De Muzen (The Muses), which was a predecessor of the influential magazine De Gids. His historical Romanticism became an inspiration to Potgieter and Bakhuizen van den Brink, who posthumously published a collection of Drost's stories and sketches. |
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