Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was born in Amsterdam on 16 March 1581, the eldest son of a grain merchant who served as burgomaster of the city. A member of the chamber of rhetoric De Eglentier, he toured France and Italy from 1598 to 1601, then studied law at Leiden. Appointed in 1609 drost of Muiden and bailiff of the Gooiland, he lived for nearly forty years in Muiden Castle, where poets and scholars gathered around him, among them Vondel and Huygens. Widowed in 1624 after losing his four children, he remarried in 1627. He died in The Hague on 21 May 1647, aged sixty-six.

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• TheatreGranidaPieter Corneliszoon Hooft · 1605not translated into EnglishLiterature