Gysbert Japiks

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Gysbert Japicx (Bolsward, Friesland 1603-1666) was a Frisian writer.

He admired Horace and Ovid and was a defender for the memmetaal (mother tongue) which elevated Frisian to a literature language. His poems are included in Fryske rijmlerye (1688) & Friessche tjerne (1640).