Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero

In 1585 Bredero was born in Amsterdam, where he lived his whole life. He called himself "G.A. Bredero, Amstelredammer", and sometimes he is called Breero or Brederode. He was the third child of Marry Gerbrants and Adriaen Cornelisz. Bredero, who was a shoemaker and a succefull real estate agent. Bredero was born on the Nes, nowadays number 41, and in 1602 he and his family moved to a house on Oude Zijds Voorburgwal, nowadays number 244, which his father bought. Bredero lived in this house the ...

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1585 in science 1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. 1585 - Events. January 12 - The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys) August 8 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. August 17 - Capture of Antwerp by Spanish forces under the Prince of ...

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August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. August 23 - Events. 1305 - William Wallace is executed. 1328 - Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers 1328 - King Philip VI of France is crowned. 1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. 1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the NetherlandsIncluding:

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1618 - Events. March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War. July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occ ...

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For the earliest stages of the Dutch language (and so its literature), the boundaries with what is now considered German are vague, and some fragments and authors are claimed for both realms. Examples include the ninth-century Wachtendonk Psalms, a West Low Franconian translation of some of the Psalms on the threshold of what is considered Dutch, and the twelfth-century poet Henric van Veldeke, who is claimed by both Dutch and German literature. The earliest literature to be indisputably ...

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As in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands the nineteenth century carried on unchanged until the events of World War I (1914–1918) changed everything in all of Europe. Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945. Marsman Roland Holst J.J. Slauerhoff Hendrik de Vries Vestdijk Ter Braak Du Perron Jan Campert Jac. van Looy Nescio ...

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Main article: Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature The first ripples of the Reformation appeared in Dutch literature in a collection of Psalm translations printed at Antwerp in 1540 under the title of Souter-Liedekens ("Psalter Songs"). For the Protestant congregations, Jan Utenhove printed a volume of Psalms in 1566 and made the first attempt at a New Testament translation in Dutch. Very different in tone were the battle songs sung by the Reformers, the Gueux songs. The famous songbook of 1588, E ...

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Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also eccentric man who lived a busy, eventful life, writing great quantities of verse. Bilderdijk had no time for the emerging new romantic style of poetry, but its fervour found its way into the Netherlands nevertheless, first of all in the person of Hiëronymus van Alphen (1746–1803), who today is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children. Van A ...

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Unlike English literature, where the Augustan period and the Age of Enlightenment sustained the high level of the Jacobean age, eighteenth-century Dutch literature mainly saw tame, formalistic, ever-diminishing returns of Golden Age themes and forms. After the great division of the Low Countries into the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands formalised in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), "Dutch literature" almost exclusively meant "Republican literature", as the Dutch language fell into disfavour with the southern rulers. A notable excep ...

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Bredero wrote different kinds of plays: tragedies, farces and comedies. He is most famous for his comedy "De Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo", meaning "The Spanish Brabanter Jerolimo", about the poor nobleman Jerolimo who pretends to be wealthy. After centuries this play is still performed in theatres. Bredero often used the words "'t kan verkeeren" to end a play or poem, as it's signature, and nowadays these words are still used in Dutch as an expression, meaning "things happen" or "things can change". The dates are first publication da ...

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