Background
Guilliam Ogier was born in Antwerp in 1618 but brought up in Amsterdam. He returned to Antwerp after his father"s death.
Guilliam Ogier was born in Antwerp in 1618 but brought up in Amsterdam. He returned to Antwerp after his father"s death.
He registered with the schoolmasters" guild in 1644, becoming dean of the guild during the 1650s. He wrote comedic moralities for performance by the chambers of rhetoric (civic poetry and drama societies) the Violieren and the Olyftack. First performances were often on the Feast of Street Luke (18 October), as the rhetoricians had a close association with the Guild of Saint Luke (the guild of painters, illuminators, printmakers and booksellers).
When the Olyftack and Violieren merged in 1660 Ogier took a leading role as "Factor" of the reinstituted chamber.
He died in Antwerp on 22 February 1689. A. August Snieders, "Lezing: Willem Ogier en zijn tijd", Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taalen Letterkunde (1888): 70–86.