Poet, novelist, and essayist, born in Haarlem, W Netherlands. He was a minister of the church and later a professor of theology. His first literary works were Byronic poems, but he is best known for the famous Camera Obscura (1839), published when he was still a student in Leiden. He continued writing literary and theological essays and poetry until a grand old age.
Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 – 13 March 1903) was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet.
Nicalaas Beets was born in Haarlem, the son of a pharmacist.
In 1840 he became a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Heemstede. In 1854 he moved to Utrecht where from 1874 till 1884 he was a professor in church history at the University of Utrecht.
He wrote prose, poetry and sermons.
His most famous work is Camera Obscura, which he wrote under the pseudonym Hildebrand during his student years.
Beets died at the age of 88 in Utrecht of a brain haemorrhage.
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