biography
| name: |
Coornhert, Dirck Volkertsz
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pronunciation:
[koornhert]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1522–90)
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| biography:
| Poet, playwright, polemicist, engraver, theologian, and philosopher, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His various occupations included solicitor, secretary of state, and engraver, whilst also writing poetry, plays, and comedies. He was a passionate humanist, preaching tolerance irrespective of religion, which caused him to be jailed in 1567, and he twice had to flee the country for long periods (1568–72, 1572–7), and briefly in 1585. He translated Cicero, Homer, Seneca, and Boccaccio. |
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