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BROEKHUIZEN, See also:JAN See also:VAN [See also:JANUS BROUKHUSIUs], (1649-1707) , Dutch classical See also:scholar and poet, was See also:born on the 20th of See also:November 1649, at See also:Amsterdam. Having lost his See also:father when very See also:young, he was placed with an See also:apothecary, with whom he lived several years. Not liking this employment, he entered the See also:army, and in 1674 was sent with his See also:regiment to See also:America, in the See also:fleet under See also:Admiral de Ruyter, but returned to See also:Holland the same See also:year. In 1678 he was sent to the See also:garrison at See also:Utrecht, where he contracted a friendship with the celebrated See also:Graevius; here he had the misfortune to be so deeply implicated in a See also:duel that, according to the See also:laws of Holland, his See also:life was forfeited. Graevius, however, wrote immediately to See also:Nicholas See also:Heinsius, who obtained his See also:pardon. Not See also:long afterwards he became a See also:captain of one of the companies then at Amsterdam. After the See also:peace of See also:Ryswick, 1697, his See also:company was disbanded, and he retired on a See also:pension to a See also:country See also:house near Amsterdam and pursued his classical and See also:literary studies at leisure. His Dutch poems, in which he followed the See also:model of Pieter See also:Hooft, were first published in 1677; a later edition, with a See also:biography by D. van See also:Hoogstraten, appeared in 1712, the last edition, 1883, was edited by R. A. Kollewijn. His classical reputation rests on his See also:editions of See also:Propertius (1702) and See also:Tibullus (1707). His Latin poems (Carmina) appeared in 1684; a later edition(Poemata) by D. van Hoogstraten appeared in 1711.

The Select Letters (Jani Browkhusii Epistolae Selectae, 1889 and 1893) were edited by J. A. Worp, who also wrote his biography, 1891. Broekhuizen died on the 15th of See also:

December 1707.

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