Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma

Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma (; ; 21 January 1792 – 12 December 1852) was a Dutch Frisian writer, poet and merchant, and the least well-known of the three Brothers Halbertsma. During his life he won a certain amount of fame in and around Grou, for the poems and short stories he wrote, to be published in 1871 as the famous Rimen en Teltsjes. It was only from 1918 onwards that more of Tsjalling Halbertsma's works were added to this collection. in the village of Grou, in the central part of the Dutch province of Friesland. He was the son of the baker and small-time merchant and his wife Ruerdtsje (or Riurtk) He had one elder brother, Justus (1789–1869), Justus, Tsjalling and Eeltsje, who, as authors, became known as the Brothers Halbertsma later in life, About Hidde Halbertsma, the father, much less is known. It is thought that he might have been a mariner before his marriage. A different biographer (G. A. Wumkes) wrote about him: "Here the pen is wielded by a man of high character."

Trade When Hidde Halbertsma died, in January 1809, In time, Halbertsma took over his uncle's company, which he expanded steadily over the course of many years. At first he worked on commission for the Amsterdam trading house of Pijnakker, but later on, he went into business for himself, buying up dairy products in Friesland and selling them with considerable profit in London. There Halbertsma's grandsons Hylke (1857–1932) and Herrius (1864–1920) established the dairy Normandia in 1888. and consisted for a large part of rhymes written for the occasion of Shrove Tuesday and New Year's weigh-house notes, accompanying texts for prints, and fortune-telling notes, partly in West Frisian, but to a considerable degree, especially in the early years, in Dutch. and Eeltsje wrote to Justus: "I feel like a soldier who has seen his best comrade sink down next to him on the field of battle." In 1871, it was published by the firm of J. de Lange in Deventer, under the title of Rimen en Teltsjes ("Rhymes and Tales"). it is undeniable that Rimen en Teltsjes and its predecessor De Lapekoer fan Gabe Skroar played a role of crucial importance in the development of a new literary tradition after Western Frisian had been used almost exclusively as a spoken language for three centuries. As of today Rimen en Teltsjes still occupies the first slot in the ranking of Western Frisian literary classics.