J. H. Leopold
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{{Short description|Dutch poet and classicist (1865–1925)}}
Jan Hendrik Leopold (May 11, 1865 – June 21, 1925) was a Dutch poet and classicist.
Leopold was born at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. After living in Arnhem he moved to Rotterdam early in 1892, where he became a teacher of classical languages at the Gymnasium Erasmianum. He translated portions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Dutch. In a more modern vein, his deafness undoubtedly contributed to the melancholic tone of much of his Symbolist work of the literary Dutch Renaissance. Having thus described his life as "one long plaint", he died in Rotterdam. His on-campus cenotaph includes his portrait and one of his poems.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Hendrik-Leopold|title=Jan Hendrik Leopold | Dutch writer, Symbolist, Expressionist | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}
Works
- Studia Peerlkampiana (1892)
- Ad Spinozae opera posthuma (1902)
- Stoïsche wijsheid (1904)
- M. Antonius Imperator (1908)
- Uit den tuin van Epicurus (1910)
- Verzen (1912)
- Cheops (1916)
- Oostersch (1924)
- Verzen II (1926)
Gallery
File:Cheops_-_KW_165_D_14_-_006.jpg|Cheops
File:JHLeopold.jpg|1913 photograph by Henri Berssenbrugge
File:JHLeopold2.jpg|Pontresina, Switzerland, 1920
File:Rotterdam_kunstwerk_Leopold.jpg|Cenotaph, by Charlotte van Pallandt
References
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External links
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- {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.kb.nl/themas/nederlandse-poezie/dichters-uit-het-verleden/jh-leopold-1865-1925 Koninklijke Bibliotheek - J.H. Leopold]
- {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=leop004 Digitale Bibliotheek Nederlandse Letteren - J.H. Leopold]
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