Nescio

Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh, known as Frits, was born in Amsterdam on 22 June 1882, the eldest son of a blacksmith who became a shopkeeper. He joined a trading house, the Holland-Bombay Trading Company, in 1904, became its director in 1926 and retired at the end of 1937. Married in 1906 to Aagje Tiket, father of four daughters and a keen walker, he signed Nescio, “I do not know” in Latin, so as not to harm his career. His reputation as a writer was established only after his death, which occurred in Hilversum on 25 July 1961.

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