WRITER

Joost van den Vondel

1587 - 1679

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Joost van den Vondel (Dutch: [ˈjoːst fɑn də(ɱ) ˈvɔndəl]; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch playwright, poet, literary translator and writer. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer in the Dutch language as well as an important figure in the history of Western literature. In his native country, Vondel is often called the "Prince of Poets" and the Dutch language is sometimes referred to as "the language of Vondel". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joost van den Vondel has received more than 216,315 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Joost van den Vondel is the 927th most popular writer (up from 1,085th in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,086th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Writer.

Joost van den Vondel is most famous for his work as a Dutch poet and playwright.

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Notable Works

De werken van J. van den Vondel
1888
Vondel's Lucifer
1898
Lucifer
Drama
An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve’s world, longing for the pleasures of their flesh.
1654
Gysbreght van Aemstel
1964
Gijsbrecht Van Amstel (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
19913 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joost van den Vondel ranks 927 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques Clément, James May, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Miep Gies, Lucius Accius, and Vinicius de Moraes. After him are Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Ann Radcliffe, W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, Thomas Pynchon, and Jean de La Bruyère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1587, Joost van den Vondel ranks 3. Before him are Francesca Caccini, and Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy. After him are Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Samuel Scheidt, Stefano Landi, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Magdalene of Bavaria, Esaias van de Velde, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Johannes Fabricius. Among people deceased in 1679, Joost van den Vondel ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Hobbes, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. After him are John of Austria the Younger, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Marie de Rohan, Willem van Aelst, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Jean François Paul de Gondi, and Francesco Barberini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joost van den Vondel ranks 893 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Florian Geyer (1490), Saloninus (242), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), and Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615). After him are Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Eduard Künneke (1885), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), and Götz von Berlichingen (1480).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joost van den Vondel ranks 56. Before him are Peter Weiss (1916), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Hans Fallada (1893), Stefan George (1868), Achim von Arnim (1781), and Anna Seghers (1900). After him are Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Hans Sachs (1494), Kurt Eisner (1867), Tannhäuser (1205), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868).

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