The First Dutch Academy (
Dutch
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: ) was an institution set up by
Samuel Coster
Samuel Coster (1 September 1579, Amsterdam – 1665) was a Dutch playwright.
Coster was the fifth child of Adriaen Lennaertz, sexton and carpenter, and Aeltgen Jansd. By around 1605, he was a member of the Amsterdam rederijkerskamer "De Eglan ...
(with the important support of
Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (16 March 1585 – 23 August 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.
Life
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March 1585 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic ...
and
Hooft) in Amsterdam. The institution was set up to offer better theatre than the old
rederijkerskamers could then manage. Another (perhaps more important) aim was to offer higher education to common people.
The academy was inaugurated on 23 September 1617 with '
Apollo
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' by Suffridus Sixtinus, and the tragedy "" (the murder of
William of Orange) by
Gijsbert van Hoghendorp
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. This all occurred in a wooden building. The coat-of-arms of the academy consisted of a
beehive
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under an
eglantine with the word "IJver" ("zeal") as a motto.
Calvinist
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ic preachers of that time put pressure on the new institution to close. The theatre did not give in, particularly since its first two professors were
Mennonite
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s (
Sibrant Hanses Cardinael
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in Arithmetic and
Jan Thonis
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in Hebrew).
In 1631,
Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch poet, writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most ...
wrote his "{{lang, nl, Vraghe van d'Amsterdamsche Academi aan alle poëten en dichters" (Questions of the Amsterdam Academics to all poets), provoking further vehement Calvinist reactions. Finally the 'Oeffenschool', that was meant to go with the academy, was founded. The
Athenaeum Illustre was later set up in the city, but here no teaching was presented in the native language.
The main figures of the academy wrote comedy and farce:
*Coster: Teeuwis de boer en Tysken vanden Schilde
*Bredero: Lucelle, De Koe, Symen, De Meulenaer, Het Moortje, Spaansche Brabander
*Hooft: Warenar
External links
Toneelagenda Amsterdam 1617-1665
Theatre in the Netherlands
17th century in Amsterdam
Culture in Amsterdam
1617 establishments in the Dutch Republic
Educational institutions established in the 1610s