WILLEM, a Dutch poet and historian, born at Amsterdam in 1756. His best known productions are his poem on The Love of Fatherland, his translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, his Buiten Lieren, or Rural Life, and The Destruction of the First World. He was pensioned by Louis, King of Holland; but neglected by the succeeding government. His History of Holland was edited by M. Tydeman after his death, which occurred at Haarlem in 1831.