Background
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter was born at Zwolle, in Overyssel, Netherlands on the 17th of June 1808.
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Everhardus Johannes Potgieter was born at Zwolle, in Overyssel, Netherlands on the 17th of June 1808.
He started life in a merchant's office at Antwerp. In 1831 he made a journey to Sweden, described in two volumes, which appeared at Amsterdam in 1836-1840. Soon afterwards he settled in Amsterdam, engaged in commercial pursuits on his own account, but with
more and more inclination towards literature. With Heije, the popular poet of Holland in those days, and Bakhuizen van den Brink, the rising historian Potgieter founded De Muzen (The Muses, 1834-1836), a literary review, which was, however, soon superseded by De Gids ("The Guide"), a monthly, which became the leading magazine of Holland. In it he wrote, mostly under the initials of W. Dg, a great number of articles and poems.
The first collected edition of his poems (1832-1868) appeared in 2 vols (Haarlem, 1868-1875), preceded by some of his contributions to De Gids, in 2 vols also (Haarlem, 1864), and followed by 3 vols of his Studien en Schetsen ("Studies and Sketches, " Haarlem, 1879).
Of Potgieter's Het Noorden in Omtrekken en Tafreelen ("The North in Outlines and Pictures") the third edition was issued in 1882, and an edition de luxe of his poems followed at Haarlem in 1893. Under the title of Personen en Onderwerpen ("Persons and Subjects") many of Potgieter's criticisms had collectively appeared in 3 vols at Haarlem in 1885, with an introduction by Conrad Busken-Huet.
Potgieter remained to his death the irreconcilable enemy of the Dutch Jan Salie, as the Dutchman is nicknamed who does not believe in the regeneration of the Dutch people. Potgieter held up the Netherlanders of the golden age of the 16th and 17th centuries as models to be emulated. In these views he essentially differed from Huet. Yet the two friends worked harmoniously together; and when Potgieter reluctantly gave up De Gids in 1865, it was Huet whom he chose as his successor.
Both then proceeded to Italy, and were present at the Dante festivities at Florence, which in Potgieter's case resulted in a poem in twenty stanzas, Florence (Haarlem, 1868). In Holland Potgieter's influence has been very marked and beneficial.
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