Hendrik Marsman

Hendrik Marsman was born in Zeist on 30 September 1899, the son of a bookseller. In frail health, he was turned down in 1914 by the merchant navy school, studied law at Leiden and then at Utrecht, and in 1929 set up as a lawyer in that city. Co-editor from 1925 of the journal De Vrije Bladen, a friend of Ter Braak, Vestdijk and Du Perron, he married the schoolteacher Rina Barendregt on 18 December 1929. He left the Netherlands in 1936, travelled across Europe and died on 21 June 1940 in the sinking of the Berenice, which was taking him to England.

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• PoetryTempel en kruisHendrik Marsman · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature