Martinus Nijhoff

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Born	April 20, 1894 • The Hague • Netherlands
Died	January 26, 1953 (aged 58) • The Hague • Netherlands
Notable Works	“De wandelaar” • “Het uur U” • “Nieuwe gedichten” • “Vormen”

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Hella S. Haasse

Dutch author

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Dutch author

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dutch author

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero

Dutch author

Henriëtte Goverdina Anna Roland Holst-van der Schalk

Dutch poet and socialist

Daniël Heinsius

Dutch poet

Herman Teirlinck

Flemish author

Albrecht Rodenbach

Flemish writer

Hugo Grotius

Dutch statesman and scholar

Heijermans, crayon drawing by Jan Toorop, 1914

Herman Heijermans

Dutch author

Jan de Hartog

Dutch-American author

Iancu Văcărescu

Romanian author

Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian mathematician and writer

William Shakespeare

English author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Jean Racine

French dramatist

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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