Conrad Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet ( born December 28, 1826 in The Hague, † May 1, 1886 in Paris) was a Dutch writer and critic.

He was a preacher in Haarlem, but put as a result of complications, in which brought him his liberal direction, its place and devoted himself to literature. Already he had made as a critic on the theological field over by his Brieven the bijbel and polemical fragments such as novelist by Groen en rijp and Overdrukjes known; now he joined the magazine De Gids also as a literary critic who denounced everything mediocre and Demanding in the literature relentlessly. Its mostly masterful essays of this type under the headings: literary fantasies en kritieken ( Haarl. 1868-1887, 23 vols ) and Nederlandsche belle geometry (ibid. 1857-76, 3 vols ) published collected. In addition to descriptions of his travels in Italy, France and Belgium and art historical writings, such as Het country van Rubens (. 2nd Edition, Amsterd 1881), Het country van Rembrandt ( Haarl. 1883; . German Mohr, Leipz 1886), he published the novel Lidewijde (1868; German by Glaser, Braunschw 1874. ). After a stay in Batavia, where he edited the newspaper Java - bode, he lived in Paris, where he died in May 1886.