Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der Aa

Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der Aa.

Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der Aa (born October 7, 1791 in Amsterdam , † May 14, 1851 in Oosterbeek ) was a Dutch lawyer, writer and poet.

Life

Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der Aa was the eldest son of the lawyer Pierre Jean Baptiste Charles van der Aa and his wife Francina Adriana Bartha van Peene. He had several siblings; u. a he was the brother of the lexicographer Abraham Jacob van der Aa . He only adopted the name Robidé later after his maternal grandmother. In December 1811 he became a doctor of both rights and then acted as a lawyer in Leiden in his father's office, who died on May 12, 1812 at the age of 41 in Leiden. In June of the same year he became secretary to the mayor of Sneek and took part in the Dutch uprising against Napoleon in 1813 with the rank of major . In March 1814 he became secretary of the Frisian town of Lemmer and then of Lemsterland . In 1815 he volunteered in the Dutch armed forces when Napoleon briefly returned to power in France in 1815 during the reign of the Hundred Days .

On June 11, 1816 van der Aa married the lyre player and poet Eelkje Poppes; the marriage produced three daughters. In 1818 he became a lawyer in the Frisian city of Leeuwarden . In the following years he made a name for himself primarily as a poet, where he wrote patriotic poetry and odes for famous personalities. After the death of his wife (September 20, 1828), he entered into a second marriage with Lucia Maria de Jongh on December 6, 1830. With this he had a son in 1832, Pierre Jean Baptiste Charles Robidé van der Aa. In 1834 he became a lawyer in Arnhem and in September 1838 a judge at the local district court. In the field of his literary work, he now wrote fewer poems and more prose works. He was interested in an increase in popular education, wrote against alcohol abuse, among other things, and in 1840 became school inspector for the first district of Gelderland . From 1839 to 1847 he edited De Volksbode with the Dutch clergyman and author Ottho Gerhard Heldring .

After the death of his second wife (August 28, 1846), van der Aa had been suffering from a serious brain disease since 1848 and died in 1851 at the age of almost 60.

Works (selection)

• De dood van Lord Byron (poem, 1827)
• De Rijn in afbeeldingen en tafereelen geschetst (2 vols., Amsterdam 1836)
• De zoon der Natuur en de man naar de Wereld (2 vols., Amsterdam 1837)
• Volksverhalen en Legenden aan de Rijnoevers verzameld (2 vols., Arnhem 1839)
• Napoleon's Assche (poem, Amsterdam 1841)

literature

• Aa, Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der , in: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), 1st vol. (1911), p. 8ff. ( online Dutch)
• Aa, Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der , in: Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden , 1st vol. (1852), p. 3ff. ( online Dutch)