Background
He was the son of Judith Muijsart and Hermanus Angelkot Senior (ca 1648 - ca 1713), who also wrote plays and practised as a pharmacist.
He was the son of Judith Muijsart and Hermanus Angelkot Senior (ca 1648 - ca 1713), who also wrote plays and practised as a pharmacist.
Hermanus Junior. married Catharina te Naerde in Amsterdam before 1717. Angelkot Junior. was friendly with Pieter Langendijk who was the first to translate Molière into Dutch. Together they wrote Cato, of de ondergang der Roomsche vryheid (1715), based on Joseph Addison"s Cato, a Tragedy (1713), dedicating it to the then mayor of Amsterdam, Nicolaes Witsen.