Eeltsje Halbertsma

Eeltsje Halbertsma

Eeltsje Hiddes Halbertsma was a Frisian writer, poet and physician, member of the Halbertsma family, and the youngest of the Halbertsma Brothers. He became well known when he and his elder brother Justus published the poetry and short story collection De Lapekoer fan Gabe Skroar in 1822. Afterwards, this work was continually expanded, and also came to include contributions by a third brother, Tsjalling, until all the Halbertsma Brothers' prose and poetry was posthumously collected in 1871 to become the famous work Rimen en Teltsjes. This book played a role of crucial importance in the development of a new literary tradition after Western Frisian had been used almost exclusively as a spoken l