Jacob Duym
Jacob Duym (* 1547 in Leuven ; † between 1612 and 1616 in Muisbroek , Ekeren ) was a Dutch writer .
Life
His father, Hubert Duym, came from Utrecht and enrolled at the University of Leuven in 1535, where he settled as a lawyer after studying and marrying Maria van de van den Broeck. Also Jonkheer Jacob Duym studied law at the old University of Leuven and became a lawyer later. During the time of the so-called "Calvinist Republic" (1577–1585) he settled in Antwerp .
As a captain, he fought alongside the rebels under William of Orange against the Habsburg troops. He was captured in 1584 and held by Spanish soldiers in Namur Castle . His father, who fought on the opposing side, was killed in the same year at Löwen, which was besieged by rebels. After almost two years as a prisoner of war, Duym was released in 1586 through a ransom payment from his stepmother and settled with his wife Elisabeth Craechs in Leiden, where he stayed until 1608. While he had to recover from his long imprisonment, he worked as a writer and joined the Flemish rhetorical society “De Witte Acoleyen” (old Flemish Witte Ackoleyen ), from 1591 the “De Oranje Lelie” (old Flemish Orainge Lelie ) and again the "Witte Acoleyen".
In 1600 he published a collection of poems in the manner of rhetoricians, the Spiegelboeck , followed in 1606 by the Ghedenckboeck , in which he describes the war against Spain in six plays based on his own experiences.
Duym is seen as a transitional figure between the literature of the rhetoricians and the literature of the Renaissance in the Netherlands.
Fonts
- Jacob Duym: Het moordadich stuck van Balthasar Gerards, aen aen the doorluchtighen prince van Oraignen, 1584 tragedische wijse ghestelt in dense . Europeana. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
- Jacob Duym: A spiegelboeck inhoudende ses mirror was in veel deuchden claer aen te mercken zijn, seer cortwijlich end stichtelijck voor all people om te read . Europeana. Retrieved December 15, 2015. Title: Spiegelboeck (1600).
- Een ghedenck-boeck, het welck ons empties aen al het quaet en den great moetwil van de Spaingnaerden (1606)
- Benoude belegheringhe of the city of Leyden (1606)
- Corte historical beschryvinghe der Nederlandscher oorlogen, vanden begin end aenvangh aff der beroerten tot het twaelff-jaerich passed toe (1612)
literature
- Ernst Martin: Duym, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 502.
- Johan Koppenol: Jacob Duym en de Leids rederijkers. In: Neerlandistiek.nl , year 2001, pp. 1–23 (Dutch, with bibliography).
Web links
- Jacob Duym. In: dbnl, digital library in front of de Nederlandse letteren
- Short biography at the University of Leiden
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b January Koppenol: Jacob Duym en de Leidse rhetoricians. In: Neerlandistiek.nl , year 2001, p. 1, accessed on December 16, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duym, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1547 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lions |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1612 and 1616 |
| Place of death | Muisbroek , Ekeren |