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Willem Bilderdijk

Born

in Amsterdam, Netherlands

September 07, 1756

Died

December 31, 1831

Genre

Poetry

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Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, linguist, botanist and theologian. In the early nineteenth century he was regarded as the greatest living poet in the Netherlands. At the age of six an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous study. His parents were ardent partisans of the House of Orange-Nassau, and Bilderdijk grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions.

Bilderdijk obtained his doctorate in law at Leiden University in 1782, and began a legal career in The Hague. During this time he entered an unhappy marriage with Catharina Rebecca Woesthoven. When in 1795 he refused to take the oath to the administration of the new Batavian Republic, he was forced to l Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, linguist, botanist and theologian. In the early nineteenth century he was regarded as the greatest living poet in the Netherlands. At the age of six an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous study. His parents were ardent partisans of the House of Orange-Nassau, and Bilderdijk grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions.

Bilderdijk obtained his doctorate in law at Leiden University in 1782, and began a legal career in The Hague. During this time he entered an unhappy marriage with Catharina Rebecca Woesthoven. When in 1795 he refused to take the oath to the administration of the new Batavian Republic, he was forced to leave the Netherlands. He went to Hamburg, and then to London, where he worked as a language instructor. When he left London for Braunschweig, his pupil Katharina Wilhelmina Schweickhardt (1776-1830), the daughter of a Dutch painter and herself a poet, followed him. The two started an affair and, after he had formally divorced his first wife, he moved in with her.

In 1806 he returned to the Netherlands, where the Batavian Republic had been replaced by a monarchy, with as its first king Louis Bonaparte, a brother of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte kindly received Bilderdijk, appointed him his librarian and eventually president of the Royal Institute of Dutch Literature. After the abdication of Bonaparte, Bilderdijk suffered great poverty; when William I of the Netherlands ascended the throne in 1813 he hoped to be made a professor, but was disappointed and instead became a private tutor in Leiden.

Bilderdijk was the founder of the spiritual movement called the "Réveil", which tried to give a Christian answer to the ideals of the French Revolution. Among his disciples were Abraham Capadose, Willem de Clercq, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, and most notably Isaac da Costa. Bilderdijk continued his vigorous campaign against liberal ideas until his death on December 18, 1831. ...more

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	Kort verhaal van eene aanmerkelijke luchtreis en nieuwe planeetontdekking by Willem Bilderdijk, Martien J.G. de Jong (Contributor) 2.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1813 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De kunst der poezy 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leven, ach! Wat zijt gij toch? 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas Short Works Collection 2008 by Willem Bilderdijk, Charles Dickens, Paul Laurence Dunbar 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De ondergang der Eerste Wareld 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ik reikhals naar het graf by Willem Bilderdijk, Peter van Zonneveld (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winterbloemen 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1811	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mijn verlustiging 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winterbloemen: [Eerste deel] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hanenpoot: Prentenboek voor zijn zoontje Julius Willem (Klassieken Nederlandse letterkunde) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Geen Priester vergeeft u de misslagen uit kracht van ’t gezag eener kerk, die deze vergeving op ’t gruwlijkst misbruikt en verbeurd heeft. Hy zal u voor een hand vol gelds niet zeggen: al hadt gy de moeder gods verkracht of al doet gy het nog, ik ontsla u van schuld en open de poorten des hemels in des H. Petrus naam. Maar uw medechristen zal met u bidden tot Hem van wien alle vergeving komt, die voor uwe wandaden geleden heeft, die ’t berouw dat gy voelt in uw hart werkt, en ook u het onbedrieglijk woord heeft gegeven, dat Hy in het uur der benaauwdheid u hooren en redden zal.”
― Willem Bilderdijk, Een protestant aan zijne medeprotestanten ter gelegenheid van de afschetsing der voortreffelijkheid van den katholyken kerkler door J. G. le Sage ten Broek. 1816 [Leather Bound]

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“Zoo lang menschen menschen zijn, kan iemand ter goeder trouw dwalen, en dus tevens een eerlijk man zijn, en nochtans een’ aanhang begunstigen, die ten hoogste verderfelijk is.”
― Willem Bilderdijk

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