Constantijn Huygens

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Constantijn and Suzanna Huygens, painting by Jacob van Campen around 1623

Constantijn Huygens (born September 4, 1596 in The Hague ; † March 28, 1687 ibid) was a Dutch diplomat , poet and composer .

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Constantin Huygens studied as a young man Jura , and became a diplomat and secretary of two Dutch governors , Frederick Henry and William II. He often had to strenuous travel, even battles to make. Around 1640 he could afford to have the Hofwijck manor house (now a museum) built in Voorburg . He had designed the square building himself. He wrote in seven languages, many witty and, as usual in the 17th century, often moral and pious poems, for an educated audience, as well as a comedy and some satires.

In 1627 Huygens married Suzanna van Baerle . This marriage produced five children. Constantijn was also secretary to the rulers of the Netherlands, Christiaan was one of the leading mathematicians and physicists of the 17th century and Lodewijck was a diplomat.

Huygens was friends with René Descartes and supported him with the printing of his books. Huygens was also active as a musician and composer. He could play the lute, the viola da gamba, the harpsichord and the organ. In 1640 he wrote an organ tract Gebruyck of ongebruyck van 't orgel in de kercken der Vereenighde Nederlanden and in 1658 a treatise on the Kerck Bridge of the Psalms .

literature

  • Inge Broekman: De rol van de schilderkunst in het leven van Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) . Lost, Hilversum 2005, ISBN 90-6550-854-6 .
  • Hendrik Arie Hofman: Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Een christelijk-humanistic bourgeois-gentilhomme in dienst van het Oranjehuis . Hes, Utrecht 1983, ISBN 90-6194-443-0 .
  • Adrianus Martinus Theodorus Leerintveld: Leven in mijn dens . Historical-critical uitgave van Constantijn Huygens' Nederlandse Gedichten (1614-1625) . Diss. Utrecht 1997.
  • Ernst Martin:  Huygens, Constantin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 486 f.
  • Tineke ter Meer: Snel en dense. A study of the epigrams by Constantijn Huygens . Rodopi, Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 90-5183-282-6 (Amsterdam Publications on Language and Literature, Vol. 96).
  • Rudolf Rasch: “Een raadsman voor de kunsten. Constantijn Huygens as adviseur van Frederik Hendrik ”. In: Harald Hendrix and Jeroen Stumpel (eds.): Kunstenaars en opdrachtgevers , Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-5356-204-4 , pp. 89–117.
  • Jacob Smit: Het leven van Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). De grootmeester van woord- en snarenspeel . Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1980, ISBN 90-247-2232-2 .
  • Nanne Streekstra (Ed.): Constantijn Huygens 1596-1996. Lezingen van het tweede Groningse Huygens symposium . Passage, Groningen 1997, ISBN 90-5452-037-X .
  • Leendert Strengholt: Huygens studies. Bijdragen tot het onderzoek van de poëzie van Constantijn Huygens . Buijten en Schipperheijn, Amsterdam 1976, ISBN 90-6064-137-X .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Huygens (family). In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 6 (Head - Jenny). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1957, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 983
  2. ^ Rudolf Rasch:  Huygens (family). In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 9 (Himmel - Kelz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1119-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Huygens, Constantijn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch diplomat, poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1687
Place of death The hague