Jan ten Brink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan ten Brink

Dutch historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1834

Place of Birth: Appingedam, Groningen, Netherlands

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1901

Profession: writer, professor, biographer, university teacher, literary historian

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jan ten Brink (15 June 1834 – 18 July 1901) was a Dutch writer. He was born in Appingedam, Netherlands.
He studied in Leiden, went to Batavia for a few years, and in 1862 he became a teacher at a secondary school in The Hague.
In 1884 he became professor in Dutch literature at the Leiden University. Ten Brink was a conservative writer.
Conrad Busken Huet and, especially, the 'movement of 80', writers and poets who were far more progressive than Ten Brink, attacked him on several occasions in literary magazines such as De Gids and De Nieuwe Gids.
He died, aged 67, in Leiden.