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biography classifications major works cross references biography name: Haren, Willem van pronunciation: [van hahren] sex: male lived: (1710–68) biography: Writer and politician, born in Leeuwarden, N Netherlands. A Frisian nobleman, he was elected delegate of the Frisians to the state parliament in The Hague. His work is characteristic of the 18th-c, the period of rationalism and the Enlightenment. After financial difficulties and family problems, he commmitted suicide in 1768.