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Personal data Balthasar Huydecoper 

• He was born on April 10, 1696 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
• He died on September 23, 1778, he was 82 years old.
• A child of Jan Elias Huydecoper and Agatha Gerardsdr Hasselaer

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Huydecoper, Balthasar, geb. 1695 in Amsterdam, 1740 Schöffe. seiner Vaterstadt; er starb als Deichaufseher in Texel am 24. September 1778
Huydecoper (spr. heu-), Balthazar, holländ. Gelehrter und Dichter, geb. 1695 zu Amsterdam, war Amtmann auf der Insel Texel, dann Schöffe zu Amsterdam und starb 21. Sept. 1778 daselbst. H. hat sich besonders als Sprachforscher hervorgethan. Seine Hauptwerke in dieser Hinsicht sind seine Anmerkungen zu Vondels Übersetzung von Ovids "Metamorphosen" (Amsterd. 1730; neue Ausg., Leiden 1782-91, 4 Bde.) und die Ausgabe der "Reimchronik" des Melis Stoke mit Erläuterungen (das. 1772, 3 Bde.), der erste Versuch einer kritischen Ausgabe eines altniederländischen Schriftstellers. Als Dichter gab er eine Übersetzung von Horaz' Satiren (1737), Trauerspiele und "Gedichte" (Amsterd. 1788) heraus.
Hebt gy noch geld, noch goed: gaa deze deur voorby.Hebt gy 't laatste, en mist gy 't eerste, kom by my.Geef pand, ik geef u geld. waarom zoude ik u borgen?Of is 't u niet genoeg dat gy van 't mynen teert?Maart eyst gey u pand terug, zo dient ge in tyds te zorgen,Dat my myn hoofdsom, met de rente wederkeert.Zo help ik u en my, en toon, aan de onderzoekersVan myn geheymen, 't graf des eervergeeten woekers.
Have you neither monies, nor goods, pass by these gates.Have you the latter but the former not, these doors you await.Offer your pledge, and money I shall supply. In return, your interest payment.Or be you not satisfied to feed on my savings?In March you may reclaim your goods, though with good intent,To pay back the loan amount, with interest not waiving.Thus I help you and myself and show the examinersFrom my secrets comes death to the nefarious moneylenders.
(Balthazar Huydecoper – 1740)
Balthazar Huydecoper was born in Amsterdam 10 April 1695 in a patrician family. At early age he lost both his parents. After his study and Grammar school period (1703-1713) he wrote his tragedies. After Arzases (1722), in which an experimental synthesis of French Classicist and Aristotelian dramaturgy was explored, Huydecoper became Regent of the municipal orphanage with the supervision over the municipal theatre (until 1725). Between 1725 and 1778, the year of his death, Huydecoper would occupy several public posts, leaving him the time he needed for his linguistic investigations. Before 1725 belles-lettres and theory of drama were his main interest. After publishing the prose translation of Horatius' (65-8 BC) Hekeldichten en brieven (1726), Huydecoper was requested to prepare a re-edition of Publius Ovidius Nazoos Herscheppinge. Vertaalt door J. van Vondel. (Amsterdam: Blaeu/Janssonius van Waesberge/Boom en Goethals, 1703), a translation by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) of Ovidio's Metamorphoses, published earlier in 1671. In the period between 1726-1730 this study of Vondel resulted in the publication of his Proeve van taal- en dichtkunde; in vrijmoedige aanmerkingen op Vondels Vertaalde Herscheppingen van Ovidius [...]. (Amsterdam: Visscher en Tirion,1730).
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