Lieuwe van Aitzema
Lieuwe (Leo) van Aitzema (19 November 1600 – 23 February 1669) was a Dutch historian, diplomat, bon viveur, libertine and spy. • Illustration — Lieuwe van Aitzema, by Jan de Baen and Hendrik Bary. He was born in Dokkum, in Friesland. In 1617 he published a volume of Latin poems under the title of Poemata Juvenilia, of which a copy is preserved in the British Museum.
Also recorded as Leo van Aitzema · Léon d'Aitzema · Leo Aitzema
Lieuwe van Aitzema
J. de Bane H. Bary · Thesis G.N. van der Plaat (2003) Eendracht als opdracht · Public domain
- Born
- 1600. · Dokkum.
- Died
- 1669. · The Hague.
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- Dutch Republic.
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- historian, lawyer, poet, diplomat, spy, jurist and politician.
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- Dutch.
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He made a special study of politics and political science and was for thirty years resident and minister for the Hanseatic towns at the Hague, where he died on 23 February 1669. His most important work was the Saken van Staet in Oorlogh in ende omtrent de Vereenigte Nederlanden (14 vols. 4to, 1655–1671), embracing the period from 1621 to 1668. It contains a large number of state documents, and is an invaluable authority on one of the most eventful periods of Dutch history. Four continuations of the history, by the poet and historian Lambert van den Bos, were published successively at Amsterdam in 1685, 1688, 1698 and 1699. The Derde Vervolg Zijnde het vierde Stuck van het vervolgh op de historie, &c. brings the history down to 1697.
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1600
Lieuwe van Aitzema born at Dokkum.
1669
Lieuwe van Aitzema died at The Hague.
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Lieuwe van Aitzema: a soured but knowing eye, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1987.
To Lieuwe van Aitzema (5 February 1655), John Milton, Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters, 2019
A Soured but Knowing Eye, The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe, 1992
1651 03 24b Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Lieuwe van Aitzema, The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 2022
Lieuwe van Aitzema and John Milton’s The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: the Marquette Case, Dutch Crossing, 2014
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