Joost van den Vondel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch poet

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1587

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1679

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, author

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joost van den Vondel (Dutch: ['jo?st f?n d?n 'v?nd?l]; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch poet, writer and playwright.
He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century.
His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist, has been called the greatest Dutch epic.Vondel's theatrical works were regularly performed until the 1960s.
The most visible was the annual performance, on New Year's Day from 1637 to 1968, of Gijsbrecht van Aemstel. Vondel remained productive until a very old age.
Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer (play) and Adam in Exile were written after 1650, when he was already 65, and his final play Noah (play), written at the age of eighty, is considered one of his finest.



Alternative names	Philips Coninck, Philips Aertsz. Coninck, Philips Aertsz. de Coninck, Philips de Coninck, Philips Coninckx, Philips Aertsz. Coninckx, Philips Aertsz. de Coninckx, Philips de Coninckx, Philips Aertsz. Koninck, Philips Aertsz. de Koninck, Philips de Koninck, Philips Koning, Philips Aertsz. Koning, Philips Aertsz. de Koning, Philips de Koning, Philips Aertsz. Konink, Philips Aertsz. de Konink, Philips de Konink, Philips Konink
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Date of birth/death	5 November 1619	4 October 1688 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
Work period	circa 1639-1676
Work location	Rotterdam (1639-1641), Amsterdam (circa 1641 date QS:P,+1641-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 -1676)
Authority control	: Q166379 VIAF: 3262740 ISNI: 0000 0001 1487 1737 ULAN: 500000351 LCCN: n89602888 WGA: KONINCK, Philips WorldCat