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HEEMSKERK, JOHAN VAN (15971656)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 199 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HEEMSKERK, JOHAN VAN (15971656) , Dutch poet, was born at
Amsterdam
  in 1597. He was educated as a child at Bayonne, and entered the university of Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad on the grand tour, leaving behind him his first volume of poems, Minnekunst (The Art of Love), which appeared in 1622. He was absent from Holland four years. He was made master of arts at Bourges in 1623, and in 1624 visited Hugo Grotius in Paris. On his return in 1625 he published Minnepligt (The Duty of Love), and began to practise as an
advocate
 
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in the Hague. In 1628 he was sent to England in his legal capacity by the Dutch
East
  India Company, to settle the dispute respecting Amboyna. In the same year he published
the poem entitled Minnekunde, or the Science of Love: He proceeded to
Amsterdam
  in 164o, where he married Alida,
sister
  of the statesman Van Beuningen. In 1641 he published a Dutch version of Corneille's The Cid, a tragi-comedy, and in 1647 his most famous
work
 , the
pastoral
  romance of Batavische
Arcadia
 , which he had written ten years before. During the last twelve years of his life Heemskerk sat in the upper chamber of the states-general. He died at Amsterdam on the 27th of
February
  1656.
The poetry of Heemskerk, which fell into oblivion during the 18th century, is once more read and valued. His famous
pastoral
 , the Batavische
Arcadia
 , which was founded on the Asiree of Honor6 d'Urf6, enjoyed a
great
  popularity for more than a century, and passed through twelve editions. It provoked a host of more or less able imitations, of which the most distinguished were the Dordrechtsche Arcadia (1663) of Lambert van den Bos (1610-1698), the Saanlandsche Arcadia (1658) of Hendrik Sooteboom (16161678) and the Rotterdamsche Arcadia (1703) of Willem den Elger (d. 1703). But the
original
 
work
  of Heemskerk, in which a party of nymphs and shepherds go out from the Hague to Katwijk, and there indulge in polite and pastoral discourse, surpasses all these in brightness and versatility.


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