Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel
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Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel (Amsterdam, 11 March 1549 - Alkmaar, 4 January 1612) was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Amsterdam of the second half of the sixteenth century.
He is seen as a forerunner to the Golden Age of Vondel, Hooft and Huygens. He is the strongest candidate for the unknown author of the first book on Dutch grammar, the Twe-spraack vande Nederduitsche letterkunst, which appeared in 1584. (In the past it was thought to be Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert.)
On ethics, he wrote "Hertspiegel" (a summary of a more complex work), and a short play, "Numa".
[edit] Bibliography
- A. Verwey, Hendrick Laurensz. Spieghel, Groningen 1919.
- J.F. Buisman, De ethische denkbeelden van Hendrik Laurensz. Spiegel, Wageningen 1935.
- K. Kooiman, Twe-spraack vande Nederduitsche letterkunst, Groningen 1913.
- G.R.W. Dibbets (ed.), Twe-spraack vande Nederduitsche letterkunst (1584), Assen/Maastricht 1985.
- Bostoen, Kaars en bril: de oudste Nederlandse grammatica, z.p., z.j. [1985].
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