Hinrek van Alckmer, also known as Hendric van Alckmaer, Henrik van Alkmer and Henry of
Alkmaar, was a 15th-century
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch. It was spoken and written between 1150 and 1500. Until the advent of Modern Dutch after 1500 or c. 1550, there was no overarc ...
author who wrote one of the principal published versions of ''
Reynard the Fox
Reynard the Fox is a literary cycle of medieval allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables. The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century. The genre was popular throughout the Late Middle Ages, a ...
'' in 1487.
At one time a councillor to the
bishop of Utrecht, he was banned from the city in 1477 after which he moved to
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...
. Around 1475 he put together a version of ''Reynard the Fox'' that he had divided into four volumes and a number of chapters with titles and commentary. It was printed in
Antwerp in 1487 by
Gheraert Leeu. Repeatedly printed throughout Europe, it is the source of a number of translations.
The Haarlem edition of 1826 includes a parallel text in early 19th century Dutch by Jacobus Scheltema.
[J. Scheltema, ''Reintje de Vos van Hendrik van Alkmaar, naar den Lubekschen Druk van 1498, Vertaald en Uitgegeven door Mr. Jacobus Scheltmar'' (Vincent Loosjes, Haarlem 1826)]
Read here
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References
Hinrek van Alckmer
– at the ''Digitale Biblioteek voor de Nederlandse Letteren'', in Dutch
Dutch writers
People from Alkmaar
15th-century births
Year of death unknown
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