Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (152229 October 1590),

Works In addition to the 1566 manifesto, Coornhert wrote a treatise against the capital punishment of heretics, a pamphlet defending the rebellion of the United Provinces, a preface to the Dutch grammar published by the Society of Rhetoricians of Amsterdam, and several poems, including, according to some, the popular song, Wilhelmus van Nassouwe. Others, however, attributed it to Philip van Marnix. In 1586, he produced his original masterpiece, the Zedekunst ("Art of Ethics"). In 1587, he published Boeventucht, an essay about the punishment of the ruffians.

By the time he died in 1590, his Dutch translation of the New Testament (following the Latin version of Erasmus) was left unfinished. His collected prose and verse works were published in 1630 in 3 volumes.