biography
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Beets, Nicolaas
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pseudonym Hildebrand
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pronunciation:
[bayts]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1814–1903)
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and essayist, born in Haarlem, W Netherlands. He was a minister of the church and later a professor of theology. His first literary works were Byronic poems, but he is best known for the famous Camera Obscura (1839), published when he was still a student in Leiden. He continued writing literary and theological essays and poetry until a grand old age. |
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