Antonia or Antoinette Ockerse or Kleyn-Ockerse (1762 – 1828) was a Dutch poet.
Ockerse was born in
Vianen
Vianen () is a city and a former municipality in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is located south of the Lek River. Before 2002 it was part of the province of South Holland. Vianen is made up of a historic town centre tha ...
and married Joannes Petrus Kleyn in 1784, also a poet.
Adelaide Kleyn
in van der Aa
Abraham Jacob van der Aa (7 December 1792, Amsterdam – 21 March 1857, Gorinchem) was a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries, one of notable people and the other of notable places in the Netherlands.
He was born in Amsterdam in 1792. ...
She and her husband lived in Drimmelen
Drimmelen () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province North Brabant.
A large portion of the Biesbosch National Park is part of this municipality.
Population centres
Towns:
* Made (population: 11,710)
* Terheij ...
and published poems, and they were both members of an orangist-circle that wrote patriotic poetry, along with the poet Jacobus Bellamy
Jacob (Jacobus) Bellamy (November 12, 1757 in Vlissingen, Netherlands – March 11, 1786 in Utrecht) was a Dutch poet.
Biographical notes
Jacobus Bellamy was the son of Jacques Bellami jr. and Sara Hoefnagel. His father died when he was 4. His ...
. Antonia Kleyn published several "Odes" and Bellamy also called his poems "Odes" in her style. She survived her husband and her son, the painter Pieter Rudolph Kleijn
Pieter Rudolph Kleijn or Kleyn (1785 – 1816) was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands who died young.
Kleijn was born in Hooge Zwaluwe as one of seven children of the mayor, lawyer and poet Johannes Petrus Kleyn and ...
who died from battle wounds in 1815. Her daughter Adelaide Geertruid Kleyn also became a poet.
She died in Leiden
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and the Antoinette Kleynstraat there is named after her.
References
Ockerse, Antonia (1762-1828)
in 1001 Vrouwen
Author page
in the Digital Library for Dutch Literature
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1762 births
1828 deaths
People from Vianen
Dutch women poets
Dutch women writers
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