Dutch author and scholar, born in Amsterdam, Holland, 1695. He held many distinguished offices, but it is as a writer who has done much to purify and enrich the Dutch language that he is best known. He wrote Proeve van Taal-en Dichtkunde, in Veijmodige Aanmerkingen op Vondels Virtaalde Herscheppingen van Ovidius (1730) and an edition of the Rijmkronijk van Melis Stoke, met Historic-Oudheid en Taalkiundige Aumerkingen (1772), both of which are learned books. He tried poetry and dramatic writing, but they were notable chiefly for the rhetorical ability displayed, although one, Achilles, was long a favorite. He died in Amsterdam on the 21st of September 1778.
