Wilhelmus Nuyens, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch historian
Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1823
Date of Death: 10-Dec-1894
Profession: historian
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Wilhelmus Nuyens
- Wilhelmus Johannes Franciscus Nuyens better known as Willem Jan Frans Nuyens (18 August 1823, Avenhorn, North Holland - 10 December 1894, Westwoud) was a Dutch historian. Having completed his Humanistic studies in Enkhuizen, he studied medicine at Utrecht, 1842, received the degree of M.D.
- in 1848, and began practicing in Westwoud near the city of Hoorn.
- He devoted some of his spare time to literature and history, and he pub-lished, in 1856, a volume of poems entitled: De laatste Dochter der Hohenstaufen, on subjects chiefly from the Middle Ages.
- Then came a series of historical works, first among which was Het Katholicismus in betrekking met de beschaving van Europa (Amsterdam, 1856–1857, in 2 volumes), a history of the influence of Catholicism upon the culture and civilization of European nations.
- In several pamphlets and in a voluminous work, Geschiedenis der Regering van Pius IX (Amsterdam, 1862–63), he treated the Roman question of 1859. His chief work, Geschiedenis der nederlandsche Beroerten in de XVI.
- eeuw (Amsterdam, 1865–70, in 8 parts), a history of the revolutionary wars of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1598, discloses no new sources, but shows what rights Catholics were entitled to in the State.
- New editions appeared in 1886 and 1904.
- Somewhat as a sequel he wrote: Geschiedenis der kerkelijke en politieke geschillen in de republiek der zeven vereenigde provincien (1598–1625) (Amsterdam, 1886-87 in two parts).
- Intended for popular reading are: Algemeen Geschiedenis des nederlandschen Volks- van de vroegste tijden tot op onze dagen (Amsterdam, 1871–82, in 20 parts; new edition, 1896–98, in 24 parts); Geschiedenis van het nederlandsche Volk van 1815 tot op onze dagen (Amsterdam, 1883–86, in 4 parts; 2nd edition 1898); and the widely read Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis voor de jeugd (Amsterdam, 1870; 25th edition, 1905, by G.
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- Douwes). He published a number of pamphlets and articles in periodicals on topics of the times, especially in Onze Wachter, edited by him from 1871 to 1874 in collaboration with Herman Schaepmann.
- He was an energetic defender of the rights and the privileges of Catholics, and one of the first to champion the freedom of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands.
- Catholics erected a monument to him in the church at Westwoud and set aside the surplus of the money contributed as a perpetua1 fund, called "Nuyensfund", to aid the work of Catholic historians of the Netherlands.
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