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Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 – 13 March 1903) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 theologian, writer

Writer

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 and poet

Poet

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. He published under the pseudonym, Hildebrand.

Nicolaas Beets was born in Haarlem

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, the son of a pharmacist

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. From 1833 till 1839 he studied theology at the university of Leiden where he received his doctorate.

In 1840 he became a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church

Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...

 in Heemstede

Heemstede

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. In the same year he married Aleida van Foreest. In 1854 he moved to Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

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 where from 1874 till 1884 he was a professor in church history at the University of Utrecht.

He wrote prose

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, poetry

Poetry

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 and sermons. As a poet, Beets came under the influence of Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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ism.

His most famous work is Camera Obscura, which he wrote under the pseudonym Hildebrand during his student years. The first version appeared in 1839. In later years he kept adding stories to the work. Therefore, only in 1851, the final version was finished.

Beets died at the age of 88 in Utrecht of a brain haemorrhage

Stroke

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