Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger

Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger, also Nicolaes , Nicolas , Nikolas , (* 1656 in The Hague , † January 1718 in Culemborg ) was a Dutch writer and doctor .

Life

Heinsius was born the illegitimate son of the writer Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder ; he was a grandson of Daniel Heinsius . He studied medicine and settled as a doctor in his hometown.

In 1650 the father was sent to the court of Stockholm as a Dutch envoy . He held this office until 1656. He then returned to the Netherlands and was appointed official historian of the city of Amsterdam that same year . In 1687 Queen Christine of Sweden called his son in Rome to be her personal physician . On her behalf he was later also a Swedish reporter in Florence .

When his employer died in Rome on April 19, 1689, Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger was hired by the Elector of Kleve - also as a personal physician. Heinsius later traveled to Poland and Moscow .

In 1695, Heinsius made his debut as a writer with the satirical novel the vermakelyken aventurier . This novel was entirely in the style of Lazarillo von Tormes ; a work whose authorship is assumed to be Diego Hurtado de Mendoza . Two years later, Heinsius published his Don Clarazel ; Du Verdier (i.e. Gilbert Saulnier ) should be mentioned here as a model . In addition, Heinsius wrote a number of medical books.

Nicolas Heinsius died in Culemborg in 1718 at the age of 61.

Works

• Don Clarazel de Gontarnos (1697)
• The vermakelyken aventurians (1695)

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger in VD 17 .