Petrus Augustus de Génestet

de Génestet") (Amsterdam, 21 November 1829 – Rozendaal, 2 July 1861) was a Dutch poet and theologian.

[1] De Génestet lost both of his parents at a very young age; after that he lived with his uncle, the Dutch painter Jan Adam Kruseman.

In December of the same year he started working in Delft, the same city that still has the Genestetkerk, a Remonstrant church that was named after him.

In 1859, both his wife and oldest child died of tuberculosis, and because of his poor health he had to quit working as a preacher.

His narrative poem De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve") appeared in 1849.