Nicolaas Beets (Hildebrand)

Nicolaas Beets was born in Haarlem on 13 September 1814, the son of a pharmacist. A student of theology at Leiden from 1833 to 1839, he took his doctorate there, then in 1840 became pastor of the Reformed Church at Heemstede and married Aleida van Foreest the same year; widowed, he married his wife's younger sister and had fifteen children in all. Pastor at Utrecht from 1854, a figure of the ethical and irenic movement of his Church, he taught church history at the university of that city from 1874 to 1884. He died in Utrecht on 13 March 1903, aged eighty-eight.

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• Short storiesCamera ObscuraNicolaas Beets (Hildebrand) · 1839not translated into EnglishLiterature