Ferdinand Bordewijk

Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam on 10 October 1884, the son of a senior official in the Public Works department, and grew up in The Hague from 1894. A doctor of law from Leiden in 1912, sworn in as a lawyer the following year, he worked for six years in Rotterdam, then set up his own practice in Schiedam in 1919 while continuing to live in The Hague. In 1914 he married the composer Johanna Roepman, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Winner of the P. C. Hooft Prize in 1953, he died in The Hague on 28 April 1965, aged eighty.

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