Lieuwe van Aitzema

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Lieuwe van Aitzema

Lieuwe (Leo) van Aitzema (born November 19, 1600 in Dokkum , Friesland , Netherlands , † February 23, 1669 in The Hague , Netherlands) was a Dutch historian and diplomat.

Life

Lieuwe van Aitzema, son of Meinardus von Aitzema, was born on November 19, 1600 in Dokkum in what is now the province of Friesland. He studied law and political science at the University of Franeker , as well as at the universities of Paris and Orléans , where he was known as a philanderer .

In 1617 he published a volume of Latin poems under the title Poemata Juvenilia , a copy of which is kept in the British Museum . For thirty years from 1625 he was an agent of the Hanseatic cities in The Hague, which had established a residence there in 1609.

Lieuwe van Aitzema was the "chronicle writer of his time and a keen observer at the same time". His main work as a historian is the series history of verhael van saken van staet en Oorlogh, de in, end Omtrent Vereenigde Nederlanden , which from 1655 to 1671 in 15 volumes in quarto appeared and covers the period 1621-1668. This work contains a large number of state documents and is an invaluable source for one of the most eventful periods in Dutch history.

The historian Lambert van den Bos (1610–1698) continued the series with four volumes published in 1685, 1688, 1698 and 1699. The last volume, Vervolgh van saken van sta en oorlogh, in, en omtrent de Vereenigde Nederlanden, en door geheel Europa voorgevallen. Beginning with het jaar 1692 en eyndendet met het jaar 1697. Zijnde het vierde en laatste stuck van het vervolgh op de historie van de heer Lieuwe van Aitzema , describes the events up to 1697.

family

Lieuwe van Aitzemas father, Meinardus von Aitzemas, was mayor of Dokkum and Admiralty Secretary. Foppe van Aitzema , Meinardus von Aitzema's younger brother, Lieuwe van Aitzema's uncle, was a well-known lawyer and politician.

Fonts (selection)

  • Verhael van de Nederlantsche vreede-handeling (1650).
  • History of verhael van saken van Staet en Oorlogh, in, ende omtrent de Vereenigde Nederlanden (1655–1671).
  • Herstelde Leeuw, of Discours, over 't gepasseerde inde Vereenichde Nederlanden, in' t jaer 1650 end 1651 (1652).
  • De strydende leeuw. Of Nederlandtsche oorlogen, staatszaken en vredehandelingen, voorgevallen in de jaren 1621, 1622, 1623, 1624, 1625. In zich vervattende, een people inhout en mergh of the first deels of history, van saken vanstaat en oorlogh (1661).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Godefridus Frederiks, Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden (ed.): Biographical woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde . LJ Veen, Amsterdam, 2nd, revised edition, Vol. 1, 1888, pp. 8-9.
  2. ↑ Magnus Ressel: The purchase of Lübeck sailors from North Africa and the establishment of the Lübeck slave fund (1580-1640) . In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte , Volume 91 (2011), pp. 129–159, here p. 142.
  3. ↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983. ISBN 3-534-07082-8 . P. 136.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Irvine Israel : The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806 . Clarendon, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-873072-1 ; therein the chapter The Republic at Its Zenith, I: the 1650s , here p. 731.
personal data
SURNAME Aitzema, Lieuwe van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aitzema, Leo van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch historian, diplomat, bon vivant, philanderer and spy
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Dokkum , Friesland, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1669
Place of death The Hague , Netherlands