Jan Frederik Helmers [SEP] native language
Jan Frederik Helmers
Jan Frederik Helmers (March 7, 1767 – February 26, 1813), was a Dutch poet born in Amsterdam.
Works.
His early poems, "Night" (1788) and "Socrates" (1790), were tame and sentimental, but after 1805 he determined, in company with his brother-in-law, Cornelis Loots (1765–1834), to rouse national feeling by a burst of patriotic poetry.
His "Poems" (2 vols, 1809–1810), but
1902, with not less than three streets called after Helmers: the Eerste, Tweede and Derde Helmersstraat (which would be First, Second and Third Helmers Street in English).
External links.
- Jan Frederik Helmers at the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren website