Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1642)

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (born March 16, 1581 in Amsterdam , † May 21, 1647 in The Hague ), Knight of Saint Michael , was a Dutch poet , historian and playwright .

Life

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft came from the noble patrician family Hooft , which provided several Amsterdam mayors in the 17th and 18th centuries. His father was Cornelis Hooft , a powerful Amsterdam city regent around the turn of the 16th to 17th centuries . Catharina , his cousin, was the wife of Cornelis de Graeff .

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft is one of the most important poets of the Renaissance in the Netherlands. His views were humanistic; in the wars of religion of his age he remained generally neutral. His best-known drama is Warenar , which reveals a clear influence by the work of the Roman playwright Plautus . As a historian he became famous for his Nederlandsche Historien , begun in 1628 , a stylistic masterpiece on which he worked until his death.

He was wealthy and, since he was Drossaard ( Truchsess ) von Muiden , between 1609 and 1647 he managed the Muiderslot , a castle 15 km east of Amsterdam . There a literary and musical circle arose around him from 1621, the Muiderkring . The members and visitors of this group had a great influence on Dutch literature in the 17th century .

Works

• Nederlandsche historien, seedert de ooverdraght the heerschappye van Kaizar Kaarel den Vyfden op Kooning Philips zynen zoon, tot de doodt des Prinsen van Oranje. Met het vervolgh tot het one of the landtvooghdye des Graaven van Leicester . Amsterdam 1677 and numerous other editions.
• Warenar . Bakker, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-351-2653-X .

literature

• Ernst Martin:  Hooft, Pieter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 95-97.

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