Everhardus Johannes Potgieter

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (June 27, 1808 – February 3, 1875) was a Dutch prose writer and poet, who was born at Zwolle in Overijssel.

Biography He started life in a merchant's office at Antwerp. In 1831 he made a journey to Sweden, described in two volumes Het Noorden in omtrekken en tafereelen ("The North in Outlines and Scenes"), which appeared at Amsterdam in 1836–1840. Soon afterwards he settled in Amsterdam, engaged in commercial pursuits on his own account, but with more and more inclination towards literature. With Jan Pieter Heije (1809 – 1876), the popular poet of Holland in those days, and Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (1810 – 1865), the rising historian (see also Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801 - 1876)), Potgieter founded De Muzen (The Muses, 1834–1836), a literary review, which was, however, soon superseded by De Gids (The Guide), a monthly, which became the leading magazine of Holland. In it he wrote, mostly under the initials of W. Dg, a great number of articles and poems.

The first collected edition of his poems (1832–1868) appeared in two volumes (Haarlem, 1868–1875), preceded by some of his contributions to De Gids, in two volumes also (Haarlem, 1864), and followed by three volumes of his Studien en Schetsen ("Studies and Sketches", Haarlem, 1879). Soon after his death a more comprehensive edition of Potgieter's Verspreide en Nagelaten Werken ("Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works") was published in eight volumes by his friend and literary executor, Johan C. Zimmerman (Haarlem, 1875–1877), who likewise supervised a more complete edition of Potgieter's writings which appeared at Haarlem in 1885-1890 in 19 volumes. 1837 - Marten Harpertsz. 1607-1609 (in: De Gids, 1837; published separately by Wereldbibliotheek-vereeniging, 1942, 72 p.) 1840 - Liedekens van Bontekoe 1841 - Albert 1842 - Jan, Jannetje en hun jongste kind 1844 - Het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam 1856 - Het uurwerk van 't Metalen Kruis 1864–1895 - Proza 1837-1845 (2 delen) 1867 - Florence 1868 - Poëzy 1832-1868 1875 - Gedroomd paardrijden 1875 - Poëzy II 1875 - Poëzy 1827-1874 1875–1876 - Schetsen en verhalen