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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
1647May, 21

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (16 March 1581 – 21 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.

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