Introduction

Biography

Feith was born in­to an aris­to­cra­tic fa­mi­ly, the on­ly son of Pie­ter Feith and El­sa­be Spaar.

He was edu­cat­ed at Har­der­wijk, and stu­died law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leiden (1769–70), where he took his de­gree af­ter on­ly one year.

He mar­ried Ockje Groe­ne­veld in Ween­er, Ger­ma­ny, in No­vem­ber 1772 and set­tled in Zwolle. From 1773–90, they had at least 10 child­ren.

In 1780, Feith be­came bur­go­mas­ter of Zwolle.

Works

• Julia, 1783
• Thirsci, 1784
• Letters on Dif­fer­ent Sub­jects of Li­te­ra­ture, 1784
• Ferdinand and Con­stan­tia, 1785
• The Pa­tr­iots, 1784
• A tra­ge­dy of La­dy Jane Grey, 1791
• Het Graf (The Grave), 1792
• Inez de Cas­tro, 1793
• Five vol­umes of Odes and Mis­cel­la­ne­ous Po­ems, 1796–1814
• De Ou­der­dom (Old Age), 1802
• Letters to So­phia on Kant’s Phi­lo­so­phy, 1805

Feith’s works were col­lect­ed in 1824 (Rot­ter­dam, 11 vol­umes), with a bio­gra­phi­cal no­tice by N. G. van Kamp­en.