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Isaak Da Costa was born at Amsterdam on the 14th of January 1798. His father was a Jew of Portuguese descent, and claimed kindred with the celebrated Uriel D'Acosta.
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Isaak Da Costa was born at Amsterdam on the 14th of January 1798. His father was a Jew of Portuguese descent, and claimed kindred with the celebrated Uriel D'Acosta.
He studied at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Leiden, where he took his doctor's degree in law in 1818, and in literature in 1821.
In 1814 he wrote De Verlossing van Nederland, a patriotic poem, which placed him in line with the contemporary national romantic poets in Germany and in France.
His Po'ezy (2 vols. , 1821 - 1822) revealed his emancipation from the Bilderdijk tradition, and the oriental colouring of his poems, his hymn to Lamartine, and his translation of part of Byron's Cain, established his claim to be considered as the earliest of the Dutch romantic poets.
During the last years of his life he was a teacher and a director of the seminary established in Amsterdam in connexion with the mission of the Free Church of Scotland.
Da Costa ranked first among the poets of Holland after the death of Bilderdijk.
His principal poetical works were: Alphonsiis I (1818), atragedy; Poezy (Leiden, 1821); God melons (1826); Festliederh (1828); Vijf-en-twinlig jaren (1840); Hagar (1852); De Slag bij Nieupoort (1857).
He also translated The Persians (1816) and the Prometheus (1818) of Aeschylus, and edited the poetical works of Bilderdijk in sixteen volumes, the last volume being an account of the poet.
He was the author of a number of theological works, chiefly in connexion with the criticism of the gospels. His complete poetical works were edited by J. P. Hasebroek (3 vols. , Haarlem, 1861 - 1862).
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In 1822 he became a convert to Christianity, and immediately afterwards asserted himself as a champion of orthodoxy. He was one of the leaders of the Orthodox Reformed party. He took a lively interest in missions to the Jews.
He was married with his cousin, Hannah Belmonte, who had been educated in a Christian institution.
