Tsjibbe Gearts van der Meulen (May 6, 1824 - March 16, 1906) was a West Frisian-language

West Frisian language

West Frisian is a language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. West Frisian is the name by which this language is usually known outside the Netherlands, to distinguish it from the closely related Frisian languages of Saterland Frisian and North Frisian,...

 writer and poet from the town of Burgum

Burgum

Burgum is the largest and administrative town of the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel, in the Dutch province of Friesland, with a population of 10083 inhabitants...

 in the Dutch

Netherlands

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 province of Friesland

Friesland

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. He was also a clock-maker, book seller, printer and publisher.

Most of his work is collected in Ald en nij (Old and new), a work of almost 700 pages, published after his death (in 1908) by his son Wigger Arnoldus. In 1974 an anthology of his autobiographical stories called In brulloft yn'e Wâlden en oare wiere forhalen (A wedding in the Woods and other true stories) was published.