The Hollandsche Spectator (lit. "Dutch Spectator") was an important Dutch language newspaper (or an early magazine) of the Enlightenment period. It was founded by Justus van Effen, who was inspired by the British Spectator of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Justus van Effen was a government official, author and translator, and had previous experience as a publisher of several French-language magazines (Le Misanthrope (1711-1712) - a widely read journal referred to as "the first moralist periodical on the continent", Le Bagatelle (1718-1719), and Le Spectateur Français (1725)).