Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken

Dutch poet and stage writer

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1721

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1789

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, author

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken (21 August 1721 – 19 October 1789) was a Dutch poet and playwright.
Born in Amsterdam, she began writing occasional poetry and in her early twenties had published her first tragedy.
Influenced by the Enlightenment, her tragedies were classicist in style and proved to be popular, being performed all over the country.
She wrote an ode in French for George Washington, and sent it to him, and for the revised Dutch version of the Book of Psalms she provided seventeen of the psalms.