Education
He studied at the Amsterdamse Atheneum and the Seminarium der Remonstrantse Broederschap to become a preacher.
He studied at the Amsterdamse Atheneum and the Seminarium der Remonstrantse Broederschap to become a preacher.
He became a preacher in March 1852 and worked in Moordrecht. In December of the same year he started working in Delft, the same city that still has the Genestetkerk, a Remonstrant church that was named after him. They had four children.
He moved to Amsterdam, but spent most of his summers in Bloemendaal.
Two years later, in 1861, he died in Rozendaal due to tubercolosis. After his death, poet Bernard ter Haar wrote Op het Kerkhof te Roozendaal ("At the cemetery of Roozendaal") for him.
In 1862 the memorial for De Génestet at the Rozendaal cemetery was revealed. His narrative poem De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas"s Eve") appeared in 1849.