biography
pronunciation:
[hiynsius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1580–1655)
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| biography:
| Poet and scholar, born in Gent, NW Belgium. He studied law and became professor in poetry at Leiden University, writing Latin verse, emblemata, historical works, and satire. He was the first Dutch poet to write in the classicist tradition, thus becoming a precursor of the literature of the 17th-c. His son Nicolaas (1620–81) and his grandson Nicolaas jr (1656–1718) were also literary scholars. His grandson wrote the picaresque novel Den vermakelijken avonturier (The Amusing Adventurer, 1695). |
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