biography
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Duinkerken, Anton van
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pseudonym of W J M A Asselbergs
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pronunciation:
[van doenkerken]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–68)
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| biography:
| Poet, essayist, and literary historian, born in Bergen op Zoom, SW Netherlands. After declining a career as a priest, he began working as a journalist. He became editor of, among others, De Gids, and continued his art history and literature studies to become professor in both disciplines. He is mainly known for his active involvement in the emancipation of the Roman Catholic Church. This involvement is also reflected in his poetry, which is religious and fairly uncomplicated in nature. As a literary critic he declined the nihilism of younger writers such as Hermans. |
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