biography
pronunciation:
[ter brahk]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–40)
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| biography:
| Writer and cultural critic, born in Eibergen, E Netherlands. He studied history in Amsterdam and gained his PhD in 1928. While a student he became an editor of the literary magazine De Vrije Bladen, then founded his own magazine Forum with E Du Perron in 1932. An engaged freethinker and follower of Nietzsche, he turned against every form of historical authority, whether religion, education, art, science, or society. He committed suicide in 1940. |
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