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Also Known As Father Cats • Jacobus Cats
Born November 10, 1577 • Netherlands
Died September 12, 1660 (aged 82) • near The Hague • Netherlands
Notable Works “Sinne- en minnebeelden” • “Spiegel van den ouden ende nieuwen tijdt”

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Roemer Visscher
Dutch poet
Anna Visscher
Dutch poet
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Hella S. Haasse
Dutch author
Nooteboom, Cees
Cees Nooteboom
Dutch author
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Dutch author
Bilderdijk, detail of an oil painting by C.H. Hodges; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Willem Bilderdijk
Dutch poet
Albert Verwey
Dutch poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Betje Wolff, detail of an engraving by Lodewyk Gotlieb Portman after a drawing by Abraham Teerlink after a painting by Petrus Groenia.
Betje Wolff
Dutch author
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
Dutch statesman
Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman
Dutch statesman
Gerrit Achterberg
Dutch poet
Heinrich von Veldeke
Heinrich von Veldeke
German-Dutch poet
Frederik Willem van Eeden
Dutch author and physician
Willem Kloos
Dutch author
Martinus Nijhoff
Dutch poet
Edgar du Perron
Dutch writer and critic
Bredero, engraving by H. Goltzius, 1618
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero
Dutch author

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