Career
Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with January Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. In 1858, he became editor of the magazine De Schelde.
From 1861 on, he became head editor of De Toekomst, an illustrated magazine for education, which had been founded by his father-in-law Johan Michiel Dautzenberg.
He devoted himself to the more technical side of poetry and translated songs of Robert Burns (De schoonste liederen van R Burns, 1862) and of the Odes of Horatius.