De Gids (magazine)

Title page of the first edition

De Gids (English: The Guide ) is the oldest Dutch literary magazine that is still out.

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter and Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink had already published the magazine De Muzen together in 1834 , but only six issues had been published. In 1837, together with Christianus Robidé van der Aa , they founded the magazine De Gids , which was an important mouthpiece of the Dutch romanticism in its early days . Supporters of the literary movement Tachtigers ( The Eighties ) later found them outdated and therefore founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885 .

Today the magazine appears bimonthly and is published by the political weekly De Groene Amsterdammer . Old volumes are published in the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (“Digital Library of Dutch Literature”).

Web links

• Website of the magazine

source

• Wolfgang Lehmann: De Gids . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. p. 75.