Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (6 December 1808, in
Heerlen
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– 4 February 1869, in
Elsene
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) was a
Belgian
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writer. Professionally he was successively secretary, clerk, teacher, private tutor, and bookkeeper.
He wrote poems on nature, songs, novels, poems concerning the
Flemish movement
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. According to
August Vermeylen
August Vermeylen (12 May 1872, in Brussels – 10 January 1945, in Uccle) was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the literary journal ''Van Nu en Straks'' (''Of Today and Tomorrow''). He studied history at the Free Univers ...
, he was the first consciously Flemish writer. With his ''Beknopte prosodie der Nederduitsche taal'' (a study of Dutch
prosody), he tried to convince his fellow poets to return to the classical metrics of poetry. His work shows a strong German literary influence, and he translated ''Loverkens'' by
Hoffmann von Fallersleben
August Heinrich Hoffmann (, calling himself von Fallersleben, after his hometown; 2 April 179819 January 1874) was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, an ...
.
His first collection, ''Gedichten'' (Poems), appeared in 1850, and the following year the first edition of his ''Beknopte Prosodia der Nederduitsche Taal''. Many poems, songs, and literary studies followed, including an ode to miners. In 1857, he and some friends founded the educational journal ''De Toekomst'' (The Future).
He translated the ''Odes'' of
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
, which were published in 1923. A collection of his poems was published in 1869, after his death, by his son-in-law
Frans de Cort as ''Verspreide en nagelaten gedichten''.
Translations of fifty
Horatian
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
odes were rediscovered in 1910 and subsequently published. Later still, 70 letters stored in the
Plantin-Moretus Museum
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,
Antwerp
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Bibliography
* Gedichten (1850)
* Beknopte prosodie der Nederduitsche taal (1851)
on DBNL
(Digital Library for Dutch Literature
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)
* Loverkens (1852)
* De doop (1867)
* De moriljen (1867)
* Verspreide en nagelaten gedichten (1869)
* Oden (1923)
See also
* Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After Bel ...
References
Sources
Johan Michiel Dautzenberg
* T. Verschaffel, ''Belg door inborst, door neigingen, door zeden'', Handel. Kon. Zuid-Ned. Mij voor Taal- en Letterkunde 54 (2000), pp. 335–355.
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1808 births
1869 deaths
Flemish activists
Flemish writers
People from Heerlen