Johan van Heemskerk
Illustration — Title page of a 1707 edition Heemskerk's Batavische Arcadia Johan van Heemskerk (1597–1656), Dutch poet, was born in Amsterdam. He was educated as a child at Bayonne, and entered the University of Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad on the grand tour, leaving behind him his first volume of poems, Minnekunst (The Art of Love), which appeared in 1622.
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Johan van Heemskerk
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- 1597
- Died
- 1656
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Illustration — Title page of a 1707 edition Heemskerk's Batavische Arcadia Johan van Heemskerk (1597–1656), Dutch poet, was born in Amsterdam. He was educated as a child at Bayonne, and entered the University of Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad on the grand tour, leaving behind him his first volume of poems, Minnekunst (The Art of Love), which appeared in 1622.
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