Willem de Clercq [SEP] place of death
Willem de Clercq
Willem de Clercq (15 January 1795 – 4 February 1844) was a poet and leader of the Réveil, the Protestant Church Revival in the Netherlands. He is known for his diary entries, which contain extensive reports of the events he witnessed. He was also a secretary (1824-1831) and later a director (1831–1844) of the Netherlands Trading Society ("Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij" or "NHM").
Personal life.
Willem de Clercq was born in Amsterdam to a
vigorous campaign against liberal ideas to his death, which took place at Haarlem on 18 December 1831.
Bilderdijk was the founder of the spiritual movement that is called "Het Réveil", which tried to give a Christian answer to the ideals of the French Revolution. Among his disciples were Abraham Capadose, Willem de Clercq, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, and especially Isaac da Costa, who called his teacher "anti-revolutionary, anti-Barneveldtian, anti-Loevesteinish, anti-liberal".
Legacy.
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