Roemer Visscher

Roemer Visscher (born 1547, Amsterdam, Spanish Habsburg domain [now in the Netherlands]—died February 19, 1620, Amsterdam) was a poet and moralist of the early Dutch Renaissance who was at the centre of the cultural circle that included the young poets Pieter C. Hooft, Joost van den Vondel, and Gerbrand Bredero. A friend of Henric L. Spieghel and Dirck Coornhert, he was foremost in the movement for the purification and standardization of the Dutch language and...