Philips van Marnix
Philips van Marnix , Army of Mont Saint Aldegonde (* 1540 in Brussels , † December 15, 1598 in Leiden ) was a Dutch writer , officer and politician .
Life
Marnix came from a noble family from Brussels. His father was Jacob van Marnix , Baron von Pottes. He studied with Johannes Calvin and Théodore de Bèze in Geneva , among others . After completing his studies, Marnix returned to Brussels in 1560 full of hatred against Spanish rule.
In 1566 he wrote the compromise act , in which members of the lower nobility demanded freedom of religion and culture and appealed against the introduction of the Inquisition . But already in the following year he had to flee from the Spanish troops under the Duke of Alba and went into exile in Germany . It was followed by the appendix of Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau , which he later helped to establish the Dutch state.
In 1570 Marnix was appointed advisor to Wilhelm of Orange. Several diplomatic missions took him to Paris and London, among others, on behalf of his employer . On one of these assignments he was arrested by the Spanish in 1573 and imprisoned in Maaslandsluys . But just a year later it could be replaced.
In 1583 he was also entrusted with the office of mayor of Antwerp . As such, he wanted to revive the Rederijkers (Rederijkerkammer) together with the natural scientists Simon Stevin , Daniel Heinsius , Caspar van Baerle and the writers Karel van Kampen and Joost van den Vondel . After months of siege of the city by the Spanish troops led by Alessandro Farnese , he had to hand over the city to him on August 17, 1585.
Marnix is also said to be the author of the text of the Wilhelmus , the national anthem of the Netherlands .
Philips van Marnix died on December 15, 1598 in Leiden at the age of 58.
Honors
- In 1992 the asteroid (5002) Marnix was named after him.
Works
- Edgar Quinet (Ed.): Œuvres . Paris 1837–1860, 8 volumes, 2 of them in Dutch
- Godsdienstige en kerkelijke written. Before het first of in herdruk uitgegeven met historical inleiding en taalkundige opheldering by JJ van Toorenbergen. 's Gravenhage: Nijhoff 1. 1871. 2. 1873. 3. 1891. [4.] Verscheidenheden uit- en over de nalatenschap. 1878. [This volume is repeatedly incorrectly cited as Volume 3 in the research literature.] [5.] Marnixia Anonyma. Nieuwe verscheidenheden uit en over zijn nalatenschap. 1903. [The supplement to the supplement]
- Marnixi Epistulae / De briefwisseling van Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde
- I (1558-1576). Brussels, 1990.
- II (1577-1578). Brussels, 1992.
- III (1579-1581). Brussels, 1996.
- IV (1582-1584). Brussels, 2006.
- V (1585-1598). Wetteren / Brussel, 2017.
literature
- JJ Kuipers: Philips van Marnix . Kuipers, Antwerp 1998.
- Wilhelmus A. Ornée: De in het Nederlands proza en de poëzie van Philips van Marnix, heer van St. Aldegonde. A syntactic-stylistic analysis . Thieme, Zutphen 1955 (also dissertation, University of Groningen 1955).
- Inge Schoups: Philips van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde . Edition Pandora, Antwerp 1998, ISBN 90-5325-103-0 .
- CEHJ Verhoef: Philips van Marnix, heer van Sint Aldegonde . Edition Heureka, Weesp 1985, ISBN 90-6262-192-9 .
- Karl Theodor Wenzelburger: Marnix, Philipp von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 397-400.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marnix, Philips van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marnix, Philips van heer van Aldegonde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1540 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1598 |
| Place of death | Suffer |