Hiëronymus Van Alphen
Hieronymus van Alphen (8 August 1746 in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda – 2 April 1803 in The Hague), a jurist in Utrecht, Leiden and The Hague, is especially remembered as a poet, particularly for his poetry, poems for children under the title ''Kleine gedigten voor kinderen'' (Utrecht 1778-1782). Van Alphen was appointed as Ministry of Finance (Netherlands), Treasurer-General of the Dutch Republic in June 1793 but, as an Orangism (Dutch Republic), Orangist, was relieved of his position as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam, Batavian Revolution in 1795. Van Alphen’s children’s poems express a modern vision of children for his time. As these booklets were a great success, they were reprinted dozens of times and also translated into French language, French, German language, German, English language, English, West Frisian language, West Frisian and in the Malay language. Composers as Bartholomeus Rulofs, Ernst Christian Graf and Christian Friedrich Ruppe put the ...
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