J. H. Leopold
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J.H. Leopold
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.
He died in Rotterdam. The school commemorates him with a bronze and stone monument including his portrait and one of his poems.
Works[]
Cheops
- 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)
External links[]
Media related to J.H. Leopold at Wikimedia Commons- (in Dutch) Koninklijke Bibliotheek - J.H. Leopold
- (in Dutch) Digitale Bibliotheek Nederlandse Letteren - J.H. Leopold
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