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Adriaan Pietersz Loosjes (1761–1818)
Loosjes, Adriaan Pietersz (lōs’yes). A Dutch poet and novelist; born on the island of Texel in 1761; died at Haarlem in 1818. He was intended for the Church, but abandoned theology for the trade of bookseller, devoting his leisure to the composition of poems and especially historical romances which made him a favorite in Holland. Among the most popular were: ‘Charlotte of Bourbon’ (1792); ‘Louise de Coligny’ (1803); ‘Johann de Witt’ (1805); ‘Maurice Lynslager’ (1808). ‘Love Songs’ (1783); ‘De Ruyter’ (1784), an epic; and several dramas, constitute his other important works.