biography
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Schoolmeester, De
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pseudonym of Gerrit van der Linde
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pronunciation:
[duh skhohlmayster]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–58)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Rotterdam, W Netherlands. He studied theology in Leiden but did not finish his degree, and became director of a boarding-school in London. His humorous poetry, influenced by The Ingoldsby Legends of R H Barham, was published by Jacob van Lennep in 1859, under the title De gedichten vanden Schoolmeester (The Poems of the Teacher). |
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