Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) was a Dutch poet and scholar who composed two didactic astronomical poems, Starrenkennis (1794) and De Starrenhemel (1807). These described the celestial sphere, the Milky Way and the constellations. The name was suggested by R. H. van Gent.
Discovered on 29-9-1973 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.