Dirk, Count van Hogendorp (18 December 1797,

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– 18 March 1845,

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), son of

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Life

Van Hogendorp studied law at

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. He graduated there in 1822 as doctor 'in both laws' (Doctor iuris utriusque), that is, civil law and

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. During his studies, he came under the influence of

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. In 1830 Van Hogendorp became substitute-officer at the court of Amsterdam. Later on he became an attorney (raadsheer) in the Provincial Court of South Holland. In that same year, he married his first cousin Marianne Cathérine

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van Hogendorp. They had a number of children, including Dirk van Hogendorp jr. (1833-1857), who like his father studied at Leiden and became a lawyer, and Anna van Hogendorp (1841-1915), who became a Christian supporter of

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. Through his oldest daughter Caroline (1831-1913), he is a great-great-grandfather of Audrey Hepburn

In the summer of 1823 Dirk van Hogendorp travelled round the Netherlands on foot with his friend

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. Both gentlemen loved this journey and produced diaries of it - that of Van Lennep was later published under the title 'Nederland in den goeden ouden Tijd' ('The Netherlands in the good old days', 1943) and 'Lopen met Van Lennep' ('Walking with Van Lennep', 2000), edited by

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and Geert Mak. The last edition appeared as a result of a TV series made for the RVU by Theo Uittenbogaard, 'De Zomer van 1823' ('The Summer of 1823'), in which he and Geert Mak retraced the pair's footsteps. The archives of Van Hogendorp are named in the 1955 Kluit Catalogus of the library of the

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on The Réveil.

External links

Biography of van Hogendorp by the RVU

The 19th century through Jacob van Lennep
- RVU educational broadcasting
Interakt
- Amsterdam producer of the series 'De Zomer van 1823'

- Online versions of the travel-diaries of Jacob van Lennep and Dirk van Hogendorp
Catalogus Kluit 1955
- University of Amsterdam

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