Flashcards: Dutch poets

Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 – May 14 or 15, 1678) was a German-born Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.

Willem Godschalck van Focquenbroch (1640 – June 1670) was a Dutch poet and playwright.

Janus Dousa (Latinized from Jan van der Does), Lord of Noordwyck (6 December 1545 – 8 October 1604), was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library.

Henriette Goverdine Anna Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869, Noordwijk – 21 November 1952, Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet and socialist.

Anna Enquist (born 19 July 1945) is the pen name of one of the more popular female authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer.

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (16 March 1585 – 23 August 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

Hans Antonius Faverey (Paramaribo, 14 September 1933 – Amsterdam, 8 July 1990) was a Dutch poet of Surinam descent.

Maria Barnas (born 28 August 1973, Hoorn) is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.

Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948 in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator.

Ramsey Nasr (born 28 January 1974, Rotterdam) is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent, half Palestinian, half Dutch.

For the painter see Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) Hieronymus de Bosch or Jeronimo de Bosch (23 March 1740, Amsterdam – 1 June 1811, Leiden) was a Latin poet and notable scholar from the Netherlands.

Adriaan Roland Holst (Amsterdam, 23 May 1888 – Bergen, 5 August 1976) was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets".

Ester Naomi Perquin (born 16 January 1980) is a Dutch poet.

Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 – 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish literary writer and journalist who was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

Hadewijch (sometimes referred to as Hadewych, Hadewig, ... of Antwerp, or ... of Brabant) was a 13th-century poet and mystic, probably living in the Duchy of Brabant.

Gerrit Achterberg (20 May 1905 – 17 January 1962) was a Dutch poet.

Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November 1511 – 25 September 1536) was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

Esther Jansma (born 24 December 1958) is a Dutch writer and academic.

Jan Hanlo, in full Johannes Bernardus Maria Raphael Hanlo (Bandung, Dutch East Indies, 29 May 1912 - Maastricht, Netherlands 16 June 1969) was a Dutch poet and writer.