Johan Michiel Dautzenberg was a Belgian writer. Professionaly he was successively secretary, clerk, teacher, private teacher, and bookkeeper. He wrote poems on nature, songs, novels, poems concerning the Flemish movement. According to August Vermeylen, he was the first consciously Flemish writer. With his "Beknopte prosodie der Nederduitsche taal (E: Concise prosody of the Dutch language), he tried to convince his fellow poets to return to the classical metrics of poetry. Wikipedia
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