Nijhoff, Martinus (1894–1953) Művek Bibliográfia   hu nl

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Dutch poet, critic and translator (The Hague 20.4.1894 -The Hague 26.1.1953).
Martinus Nijhoff was born in The Hague, the eldest son of the publisher and bookseller Wouter Nijhoff and Johanna Alida Seijn, who, during her youth, had held a great deal of admiration for Frederik van Eeden's Walden-ideas. After his secondary schooling, he attended the Gymnasium on the Laan van Meerdervoort, where he was taught by Aegidius W. Timmerman the Homer translator. From 1912 to 1915 he read for the bar in Amsterdam, but as a result of wartime mobilisation, he did not obtain his Masters title until the early nineteen-twenties. In the Student Yearbook for 1914, a number of poems penned by him were published (including the sonnet Het Juffertje in het Groen.). His debut collection De Wandelaar appeared in 1916. He was then published in a number of literary periodicals, including de Beweging (then under the editorship of Albert Verwey). From 1926 to 1933 and from 1941 to 1946 he was the editor of De Gids. Together with Bert Bakker, Nijhoff planned the production of the periodical Maatstaf, but before the publication came into circulation, Bakker died unexpectedly of angina pectoris. In 1932 he registered to study Dutch language and literature in Utrecht. As a consequence, from 1945 onwards he worked for some time as a literary adviser to the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Kunsten en Wetenschappen, the ministry for education, arts and sciences. In autumn of 1922 he stayed a while at the Parisian student hotel Hôtel des Grands Hommes, where he twice met André Gide. He was also well-travelled around the rest of Europe, visiting Denmark, England, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. His stay in Settigano (near Florence), for example, inspired him to write a number of literary criticisms for daily newspapers.


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