Marcellus Emants

Marcellus Emants was born in Voorburg on 12 August 1848, into a family of jurists from The Hague; his father was a judge. A pupil at the middle school in The Hague, he began studying law at Leiden in 1868, without any liking for it, drawn as he was to the arts. A novelist, playwright and poet, he became one of the few naturalists in Dutch literature and is regarded as a forerunner of the movement of 1880. He died in Baden, in Switzerland, on 14 October 1923, and is buried in The Hague.

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• NovelA Posthumous ConfessionEen nagelaten bekentenisMarcellus Emants · 1894LiteraturePublic domain