Lodewijk van Deyssel

Karel Alberdingk Thijm, who signed himself Lodewijk van Deyssel, was born in Amsterdam on 22 September 1864, the youngest son of the Catholic scholar and publisher Joseph Alberdingk Thijm. Taught at first by a governess, he went through the boarding schools of Rolduc and Katwijk, then joined the young men around the journal De Nieuwe Gids. An admirer of Zola, he became the most feared critic of his generation, whose attacks on established writers claimed many victims. He died in Haarlem on 26 January 1952, aged eighty-seven.

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• NovelEen liefdeLodewijk van Deyssel · 1887not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain