Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft |
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (March 16, 1581 - May 21, 1647), often
abbreviated to PC Hooft, was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright.
He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the then mayor, Cornelis Hooft.
As a poet, he was influenced by his Renaissance contemporaries in France
and Italy.
He founded the Muiderkring, a literary society located at his home, the
castle of Muiden in which he got to live due to his appointment as sheriff of that same
town.
A prolific writer of plays, poems and letters, Hooft concentrated from 1618 onwards on writing his history of the Netherlands
(Nederlandsche historiën), inspired by Roman historian Tacitus. He focussed primarily on the Eighty Years' War.
He died in The Hague.
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