Author · Netherlands
Louis Couperus
Died in 1923
Louis Couperus was born in The Hague on 10 June 1863, the youngest of the eleven children of a retired magistrate of the Dutch East Indies and a mother of the nobility. From 1872 to 1878, the family lived in Batavia. Back in The Hague, he left middle school and prepared for the Dutch-teaching certificate, obtained in 1886. Married in 1891 to his cousin Elisabeth Baud, he led from the following year an itinerant life, mostly in Italy and France; he saw the Indies again in 1921 as correspondent of a weekly, then fell gravely ill in Japan. Celebrated on his sixtieth birthday, he died in De Steeg on 16 July 1923.
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- NovelEline VereLouis Couperus · 1888LiteraturePublic domain