Clara Feyoena van Sytzama

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Clara Feyoena van Sytzama (1745)

Clara Feyoena van Sytzama , married. Clara Feyoena van Raesfelt-van Sytzama , (born April 5, 1729 in Leeuwarden , † September 1, 1807 in Heemse ) was a Dutch poet .

biography

Clara Feyoena van Sytzama was born as the daughter of the noble officer and member of the States General Pier Willem van Sytzama (1688–1759) and his wife Ebella Juliana Aebinga van Humalda (1706–1730). When she was one year old, her mother died. After two years of widowhood, her father had a second marriage with Geertruida Sjuck van Burmania, who lived as the widow of Schelto Reint Jarges on Tammingaborg in Bellingeweer . Van Sytzama moved there with his two children - Clara and her brother two years older. Clara wrote in a poem about her relationship with her stepmother:

Toen 't moederhart mij wierd onttogen
Daar pas mijn oog hair had aanschouwd
Zag God toen zonder mededogen
Aan welk een Wrede ik wierd toevertrouwd?

When the mother's heart was withdrawn from
me, just seeing it,
saw God without compassion
Which cruel one was I entrusted?

Her stepmother died in 1738, and Clara van Sytzama was henceforth looked after by the governess Alida Tegneus, who supported the poetic activities of her protégé, whose poetry essentially revolved around religious subjects and the House of Orange . The oldest known poem by van Sytzama is from 1741; In 1744 she and her governess wrote a poem for the collection of poems Stigtelyke mengeldierter by Magdalena Pollius , a friend of Tegneus.

The Tammingaborg in Bellingeweerder, home of the family
The choir organ donated by Clara van Sytzama is now in the Grote of St. Gudulakerk in Lochem

Through her brother Pico Galenus, who studied at the Imperial University of Groningen , Clara van Sytzama found access to the local circles of male students, and she became the center of a poet's ring that met in Tammingaborg and whose members were orangists . In 1746 her collection of poems Bellingeweerder uitspanningen was published , edited by the Groningen printer Jurjen Spandaw. In a foreword and an appendix, the brother Pico Galenus gave a historical overview of the orangist movement; under her picture created by Jan Abel Wassenbergh her father proudly proclaimed: “Zo praalt adeldom bij deugd / wijsheid, schranderheid en jeugd / Is in Claraas hearty wezen / Maar nog meer in 't werk te lezen” (“This is how the nobility shines with virtue "Wisdom, cleverness and youth are in Clara's noble nature, but even more of it can be read in the work.") There followed eulogies of other poets about the 17-year-old poet, whose contributions only comprised half of the book. In 1794 she said about her youth work that it was about "bumpy" verses that her father had "hastily" sent to the printer.

In addition to her governess Alida Tegneus, Clara van Sytzama was tutored by Julius Conring, a fellow student of her brother; and the two fell in love. Since the families belonged to different political camps and Conring was not aristocratic, Clara's father turned against a connection between the two, and Conring was dismissed as a teacher. He died of tuberculosis in December 1748 . Clara von Sytzema never put up with this loss, as her poems showed. To distract her, her father sent her to the house of her uncle Jan Andries op de Blankenhemert in Collendoorn , where she met Isaac Reinder van Raesfelt, Heer van Heemse, Alerdinck, de Pol en den Doorn (1723-1800), whom she married in 1750 . The couple lived on their husband's estate in Heemse; the marriage was not very happy, also because the husband did not share his wife's intellectual interests. In 1759 their daughter Ebella Juliana was born, who married young, but died in 1780 after the birth of her second child as a result of a seven-month illness, and from then on Clara Feyoena van Sytzama took care of her two grandchildren.

Through her daughter's in-laws, Clara van Sytzama met the director of the nature and art cabinets of the Dutch governor , Arnoud Vosmaer, who supported her in her literary ambitions. Around 1774 she wrote the poetry collection Heemse, een hof-bosch-en veldzang , which was published in 1783 by J. van Schoonhoven in Utrecht and in which nature around Heemse is praised as God's creation. In 1794, Johannes Allart's collection of poems appeared in Amsterdam , in which, after 50 years, she also dealt with her grief for her childhood sweetheart Justus Conring. She was one of the first women in the Netherlands to publicly admit her love for a man in poetry. In 1774 she became a member of the poets' club Kunstliefde Spaart Geen Vlijt in The Hague and the Leiden Association of Language and Poetry Lovers Art Wordt Door Arbeid Verkregen (“Art is acquired through work”). Her poem Wij knielen voor uw zetel neer was included as song 231 in the Liedboek voor de Kerken . In 1803 she published a book on the history of Greece together with Jacobus van der Scheer .

In 1800 the husband of Clara van Raesfelt-Van Sytzama died, the following year her grandson Reinhart Isaac. Shortly before her death in 1807, she donated a choir organ built by Georg Hein Quellhorst to the Hervormde Kerk Sint-Lambertuskerk in Heemse . In 1917 the organ was sold to a church in Pesse ; since 1981 it has been located in the Grote of St. Gudulakerk in Lochem. Clara van Sytzama was buried in Heemse, but there is disagreement about the exact location of her remains as there is no (longer?) Tombstone. The property in Heemse was demolished in 1870 and the property was used for a farm. In its place, the Clara Feyoena Heem was built for chronically ill seniors in the 1970s . On the occasion of van Sytzama's 200th anniversary of her death, a memorial was unveiled there in 2007. In Winsum the CF van Sytzamastraat is named after her.

Works (selection)

  • Bellingeweerder uitspanningen, owning geestelyke en mengel-stoffen, in rym . 1746.
  • Veld-zang, op de geboorte van Anna [...] princess van Orange en Nassau . 1746.
  • Ter Verheffing Van Zyne Doorlugtigste Hoogheid Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, Door De Genade Gods Prinse van Orange en Nassau ... Tot Stadhouder Capitein-Generaal en Admiraal der Zeven Vereenigde Provintien. 1747.
  • Lier-zang ter geboorte van Willem de Vde by de gratie Gods prince van Orange en Nassau ... Born in 's Gravenhage, the 8th van lentemaand 1748 . 1748.
  • Visscherszang ter zevende verjaring van hare doorluchtigste hoogheid, mevrouwe Carolina, born princesse van Orange en Nassau ... the XXVIIIth van sprokkelmaand . 1750.
  • Aan de bestuurderen van het denslievend genootschap, or de spreuk: Kunstliefde spaart geen vlijt, toen dezelve mij tot lid Verkooren hadden . 1774.
  • Op de Nederlandsche zege op de Engelschen in het zeegevecht van den 5 {den} augustus MDCCLXXXI . 1781.
  • Een beschrijving van het dorp Heemse in 1783 . Historical Vereniging. 1993. (reprint)
  • With Jacobus van der Scheer: Kort understands the divorced van oud Griekenland: waar agter: eene korte divorced van Siciliën, wijl de betrekking the dit eiland eertijds op Griekenland had, in a naauw association with dezelve state . 1803.
  • Heemse: Hof-, Bosch- en Veldzang in four pliers . 1990. Publisher: Historische Vereniging Hardenberg en Omgeving. (Reprint)

literature

  • Seerp Anema: Een vergeten denser uit de achttiende eeuw (Clara Feyoena van Sytzama) . Amsterdam 1921.
  • Claudette Baar-de Weerd: Uw sekse en de onze. Uitgeverij Verloren, 2009, ISBN 978-9-087-04100-7 , p. 114 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Annelies de Jeu: 't spoor the poets eat. Uitgeverij Verloren, 2000, ISBN 978-9-065-50612-2 , p. 156 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Clara Feyoena van Sytzama  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Sytzama, Clara Feyoena van (1729-1807). In: resources.huygens.knaw.nl. August 1, 2013, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Maarten Mulder: Sytzama, Clara Feyoena van. In: Doodenakkers. June 2, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b De 'Vrouwe van Collendoorn' op jonge leeftijd storven. - Geheugen van Hardenberg. In: historeprojecten.nl. May 2, 2014, accessed October 10, 2018 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Annelies de Jeu: 't spoor the poets eat. Uitgeverij Verloren, 2000, ISBN 978-9-065-50612-2 , p. 156 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Het kerkorgel van Clara Feyoena - Geheugen van Hardenberg. In: historeprojecten.nl. May 2, 2014, accessed October 10, 2018 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ 25920 Markt 4 7241 AA te Lochem. In: cultureelerfgoed.nl. July 31, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Hofzang Heemse. In: entoen.nu. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Sytzama, Clara Feyoena van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raesfelt-van Sytzama, Clara Feyoena van (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1807
Place of death Heemse