Dirk, Count van Hogendorp (18 December 1797, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 - 18 March 1845, The Hague

The Hague

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), son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp

Gijsbert Karel, Count van Hogendorp was a conservative Dutch statesman. He was the brother of Dirk van Hogendorp the elder and the father of Dirk van Hogendorp the younger....

, nephew of Dirk van Hogendorp (1761-1822), father of Dirk van Hogendorp jr., was a Dutch jurist. Van Hogendorp lived continually in the shadow of his father, the founder of the first Dutch Constitution.

Life

Van Hogendorp, studied law at Leiden. He graduated there in 1822 as doctor 'in both laws' (Doctor iuris utriusque), that is, civil law

Civil law (common law)

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 and criminal law

Criminal law

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. During his study, he came under the influence of Willem Bilderdijk

Willem Bilderdijk

Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch poet, the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study...

. In 1830 Van Hogendorp became substitute-officer at the court of Amsterdam. Later on he became council gentleman (raadsheer) in the Provincial Court of South Holland. In that same year, he married his full cousin Marianne Cathérine jonkvrouw

Jonkheer

Jonkheer is a Dutch honorific of nobility.-Honorific of nobility:"Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw" is literally translated as "young lord" or "young lady". In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman...

 van Hogendorp. They had various children, including Dirk van Hogendorp jr. (1833-1857), who like his father studied at Leiden and became a lawyer, and Anna van Hogendorp (1841-1915), who became a Christian supporter of women's suffrage

Women's suffrage

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. Through his oldest daughter Caroline (1831-1919), he is a great-great-grandfather of Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

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http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/audrey-hepburn/d0/i0000017.htm#i17.

In the summer of 1823 Dirk van Hogendorp travelled round the Netherlands on foot with his friend Jacob van Lennep

Jacob van Lennep

Jacob van Lennep was a Dutch poet and novelist.-Early years:He was born in Amsterdam, where his father, David Jacob van Lennep , a scholar and poet, was professor of eloquence and the classical languages in the Atheneum...

. Both loved this journey and produced diaries of it - that of Van Lennep was later published under the title 'Nederland in den goeden ouden Tijd' ('The Netherlands in the good old times', 1943) and 'Lopen met Van Lennep' ('Walk with Van Lennep', 2000), edited by Marita Mathijsen

Marita Mathijsen

Marita Theodora Catharina Mathijsen-Verkooijen is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam, with her speciality as the literature of the nineteenth century in the Netherlands....

 and Geert Mak

Geert Mak

Geert Mak is a Dutch journalist and a non-fiction writer in the field of history. His ten books about Amsterdam, Netherlands and Europe have earned him great popularity. His best-known work, In Europe, a combination of a travelogue through the continent of Europe and a history of the 20th century,...

. The last edition appeared as a result of a TV series made for the RVU

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 by Theo Uittenbogaard

Theo Uittenbogaard

Theo Uittenbogaard is a Dutch radio & TV-producer, who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in The Netherlands since 1965. His training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in The Netherlands those days. He started as a 19-year old apprentice...

, 'De Zomer van 1823' ('The Summer of 1823'), in which he and Geert Mak retraced the pair's steps.

The archives of Van Hogendorp are named in the Catalogus Kluit 1955 of the library of the University of Amsterdam on The Réveil.

External links

• Biography of van Hogendorp by the RVU
• The 19th century through Jacob van Lennep - RVU educational broadcasting
• Interakt - Amsterdam producer of the series 'De Zomer van 1823'
• Vaarwel Negentiende Eeuw! - Online versions of the travel-diaries of Jacob van Lennep and Dirk van Hogendorp
• Catalogus Kluit 1955 - University of Amsterdam
• Biography of his daughter, Anna van Hogendorp