Jacobus Bellamy

Jacobus Bellamy ( pron. -mei ), ( born November 12, 1757 Vlissingen, † March 11, 1786 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch poet.

Life

Jacobus Bellamy was the son of a Swiss baker, excited as a baker apprentice through his poems the public's attention and it was equipped with the means of patrons to the study of theology, which he began in Utrecht in 1782. Bellamy lived there almost exclusively to the Muses and endowed with some friends a " poetic society", which sought a higher recovery of Dutch poetry, to bring about especially through imitation of the modern German poets.

Under the name Zelandus he gave his Gezangen mijner jeugd ( 1782 ), on his enthusiastic Vaderlandsche Gezangen (1783 ) and 1785 more Gezangen out. His most famous poem was continued living in the memory of the nation Romance Roosje which voor het understood in the Proeven etc. (Utrecht 1874; German by Johannes Janssen, Wesel, 1834 ) appeared and stands alone on simplicity and intimacy of feeling in the Dutch literature. Even before Bellamy could start a preacher, he died March 11, 1786. His poems have appeared collected ( first 1816) New edition of Haarlem in 1852. From his posthumous letters and papers gave John van Vloten the strangest thing out ( Middelburg 1878).