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Pen name
  
Hildebrand

Name
  
Nicolaas Beets

Occupation
  
Protestant minister

Role
  
Writer


Nationality
  
Netherlands

Education
  
Leiden University

Notable works
  
Camera Obscura

Books
  
Camera Obscura

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Born
  
September 13, 1814 Haarlem, the Netherlands (
1814-09-13
)

Subject
  
Short autobiographical stories

Died
  
March 13, 1903, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 – 13 March 1903) was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet. He published under the pseudonym, Hildebrand.

Contents

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Life

Nicolaas Beets was born in Haarlem, the son of a pharmacist. From 1833 till 1839 he studied theology at the university of Leiden where he received his doctorate.

In 1840 he became a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Heemstede. In the same year he married Aleida van Foreest. In 1848 he became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, when that became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1851 he joined as member. In 1854 he moved to Utrecht where from 1874 till 1884 he was a professor in church history at the University of Utrecht.

He wrote prose, poetry and sermons. As a poet, Beets came under the influence of Byronism.

His most famous work is Camera Obscura, which he wrote under his pseudonym during his student years. Of his poems, "De moerbeitoppen ruischten" is well-known and popular; it is heavily anthologized, and even called "immortal" by one critic.

Beets died of a brain haemorrhage at age 88, in Utrecht.

References

Nicolaas Beets Wikipedia


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