Jean Théodore Hubert Weustenraad, born in 1805 in Maastricht and died in 1849 in Namur, was a Dutch poet who wrote in French, but also in Dutch and Limburgish.

He wrote, during his studies in Liège (1823-1827) under the influence of Professor Kinker, some patriotic poems in Dutch. In 1830, he also wrote Limburg's most famous satire and libertine novel, De Percessie vaan Sjerpenheuvel (li) ("The procession to Montaigu") in Maastricht Limburgish. He then left for Brussels where he participated in the Revue Belge.

Initially influenced by Saint-Simonism, his convictions became increasingly socialist. Also convinced of the merits of the technical progress of his time, he sang of it in two famous poems: Le Remorqueur (1840) and Le Haut-fourneau (1844). In 1848 he published a collection of his poems, Poésies lyriques.
Biography

Weistenraad was born in Maastricht. He was the eldest son in a family of 16 children. His father was prosecutor of the department of Meuse-Inférieure of which Maastricht was the capital. In 1823, he left to study law and philosophy in Liège.
Works

On other Wikimedia projects:

    Théodore Weistenraad, on Wikisource

    Songs of Awakening (1831)
    The Tugboat (1840)
    The Blast Furnace (1844)
    Lyrical poems (1849)
    De Percessie vaan Sjerpenheuvel (prem