Background
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March 1585 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he lived his whole life.
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Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March 1585 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he lived his whole life.
He called himself "Georgia Bredero, Amstelredammer", and sometimes he is called Breero or Brederode. He was the third child of Marry Gerbrants and Adriaen Cornelisz Bredero, who was a shoemaker and a successful real estate agent. Bredero was born in the Nes, nowadays number 41, and in 1602 he and his family moved to a house on Oudezijds Voorburgwal, now number 244, which his father had bought.
Bredero lived in this house for the rest of his life.
Both houses are now restaurants. At school Bredero learned French and possibly also some English and Latin.
Later he was educated as an artist by the Antwerp painter Francesco Badens, but none of his paintings have survived. Together with Hooft he joined Costers Nederduytsche Academie.
Around this time he wrote the play "De Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo".
On 23 August 1618, at the age of 33, Bredero suddenly died, shortly after he had recovered from pneumonia that he had contracted after falling through ice. Spanish Brabanter is window number 13 in the.
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In 1611 he became a member of the rederijkerskamer d"Eglantier, where he was an active member and became friends with Roemer Visscher and P.C.Hooft.
