Constantijn Huygens

Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague on 4 September 1596, the second son of a secretary of the Council of State and of an Antwerp mother. After studying law at Leiden, he trained in diplomacy and in 1625 became secretary to the stadtholder Frederick Henry, then to his successors, as well as lord of Zuilichem. Married in 1627 to Suzanna van Baerle, father of four sons, among them the physicist Christiaan, and of a daughter, he lost his wife in 1637 and did not remarry. He had a house built near the Binnenhof and a country residence at Voorburg, and died in his native city on 28 March 1687, aged ninety.

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• PoetryKorenbloemenConstantijn Huygens · 1658not translated into EnglishLiterature