Herman Gorter

Herman Gorter was born in Wormerveer on 26 November 1864, the son of Simon Gorter, a Mennonite pastor and man of letters, who died when the child was six. He studied ancient languages in Amsterdam, defended in 1889 a thesis on the metaphors of Aeschylus and taught at Amersfoort, before leaving teaching in 1893. A translator of Spinoza, he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1897, later joined the communists, then council communism, and in 1920 addressed an open letter to Lenin. He died in Brussels on 15 September 1927.

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• PoetryMayMeiHerman Gorter · 1889LiteraturePublic domain