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BILDERDIJK, WILLEM (1756–1831)

BILDERDIJK, WILLEM (1756–1831) , Dutch poet, the son of an See also:

Amsterdam physician, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 7th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1756. When he was six years old an See also:

accident to his See also:

FOOT

foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he See also:

DEVELOPED

developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. His parents were ardent partisans of the See also:

house of See also:

Orange, and Bilderdijk See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions. He was, says Da See also:

Costa, " See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-revolutionary, anti-Barneveldtian, anti-Loevesteinish, anti-liberal." After studying at See also:

LEIDEN

Leiden University, he obtained his doctorate in See also:

law in 1782, and began to practise as an See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate at the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague. Three years later he contracted an unhappy See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage with Rebecca Woesthoven. He refused in 1795 to take the See also:

OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath to the new See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, and was consequently obliged to leave See also:

Holland. He went to See also:

HAMBURG

Hamburg, and then to See also:

LONDON

London, where his See also:

GREAT

great learning procured him See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration. There he had as a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil Katharina See also:

Wilhelmina Schweickhardt (1776–1830), the daughter of a Dutch painter and herself a poet. When he See also:

LEFT

left London in See also:

JUNE

June 1797 for Braunschweig, this See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady followed him, and after he had formally divorced his first wife (1802) they were married. In 18o6 he was persuaded by his See also:

friends to return to Holland. He was kindly received by See also:

Louis See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon, who made him his librarian, and a member and eventually See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president (1809-1811) of the Royal See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute. After the See also:

ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

abdication of Louis Napoleon he suffered great poverty; on the See also:

ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

William of Orange in 1813 he hoped to be made a See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, but was disappointed and became a See also:

HISTORY

history See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor at Leiden.

He continued his vigorous See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign against liberal ideas to his See also:

DEATH

death, which took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place at See also:

HAARLEM

Haarlem on the 18th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1831. A picture of the Bilderdijk See also:

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household is given in the letters (vol. v., 185o) of See also:

Robert See also:

SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey, who stayed some See also:

time with Bilderdijk in 1825. Madame Bilderdijk had translated See also:

RODERICK

Roderick into Dutch (1823–1824). For his See also:

WORK

work as a poet see DUTCH LITERATURE. His many-sided activity showed itself also in See also:

HISTORICAL

historical criticism—Geschiedenis See also:

DES

des Vaderlands (1832–1851, 13 vols.), a conservative commentary on Wagenaar's Vaderlandsche h istorie; in See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations from See also:

SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles (1779 and 1789), of See also:

PART

part of the Iliad, of the See also:

HYMNS

hymns and epigrams of See also:

CALLIMACHUS

Callimachus, and from the Latin poets; in philology—Taal en Dichtkundige Verscheidenheden (1820–1825, 4 vols.); and in drama—the tragedies, See also:

FLORIS, FRANS

Floris de Vijfde (,8o8), Willem I. See also:

VAN

van Holland (18o8), and others. His most important poetical See also:

WORKS

works are the didactic poem, De Ziekte der geleerden (" The Disease of the Learned "), 2 vols., 1807; a descriptive poem in the manner of See also:

DELILLE, JACQUES (1738–1813)

Delille in Het Buitenleven (1803); and his fragmentary epic, De Ondergang der eerste wereld (182o). Other volumes were Mijne Verlustigung (Leiden, 1781), Bloemtjens (1785), Mengelpoezij (1799, 2 vols.), Poezij (1803–1807, 4 vols.), Mengelingen (1804–18o8, 4vols.), Nieuwe Mengelingen (18'o6,2 vols.), Hollands Verlossing (1813-1814, 2 vols.), Vaderlandsche Uitboezemingen (Leiden, 1815), Winterbloemen (1811, 2 vols.), &c., in some of which his wife collaborated. His poetical works were collected by I. da Costa (Haarlem, 1856-1859, 16 vols.), with a See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of the poet. See also " Mijne Levensbeschrijving " in Mengelingen en Fragmenten . . . (1834); his Brieven (ed. 1836–1837) by I. da Costa and W.

Messchert; Dr R. A. Kollewijn, Bilderdijk, Zijn See also:

Leven en werken . . . (2 vols., 18191).

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