biography
| name: |
Potgieter, Everhardus Johannes
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pronunciation:
[pohtkheeter]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–75)
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| biography:
| Writer, and literary critic, born in Zwolle, NC Netherlands. He worked as a commercial representative for various businesses. He was a co-founder of the magazine De Gids (1837), which was to become the most influential literary magazine in the next decades. When R C Bakhuizen van den Brink left the magazine in 1943, it was Potgieter who wrote nearly all articles for the magazine, but left after a crisis in 1865. He was a moralist and a romanticist, but would never let his emotions take over, and his criticism could be severe and authoritarian. His great interest in the 17th-c as a source of inspiration for a national revival was revealed in his creative work as well as his critical essays. |
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