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Pieter Huisinga Bakker, b. 24 March 1713, d. 22 October 1801, married Elisabeth Wagenaar in 1749. He was the son of a Mennonite family and a [[Collegiants|Collegiant]]. An exporter by trade, he was also a poet, writing his <em> Poëzy </em> in three parts (Amsterdam 1773, 1782, 1790). He also translated the writings of John Milton (1608-74). In 1768 he was named a member of the Dutch Literary Society, founded in [[Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Leiden]] in 1766, in whose <em> Werken </em> (works) he published a remarkable study of Dutch poetry titled <em> Beschouwing van den ouden gebrekkelyken en sedert verbeterden trant onzer Nederduitsche versen </em> (vol. 5 [1781], pp. 83-130). The biography, <em> Het leven van [[Wagenaar, Jan (1709-1773)|Jan Wagenaar]], beneevens eenige brieven van en aan denzelven </em> ( Amsterdam, 1776), of his brother-in-law and well-known Collegiant, remains of enduring significance. He was a descendant of the [[Huizinga (Huysinga, Huisinga) family|Huizinga family]] and was the first to publish a genealogy of this family, entitled <em>Stamboek of Geslachtsregister van Derk Pieters en Katrina Thomas</em> (Groningen, 1775).
= Bibliography =
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