Gerrit Achterberg
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 62 years ago |
Date of birth | May 20,1905 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Langbroek |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | January 17,1962 |
Died | Leusden |
Netherlands | |
Parents | Hendrik Achterberg |
Pietje van de Meent | |
Job | Teacher |
Poet | |
Civil servant | |
Books | Hidden Weddings: Selected Poems |
Selected Poems of Gerrit Achterberg: But this Land Has No End | |
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ID | 515225 |
Gerrit Achterberg Life story
Gerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of eight children. He was raised as a Protestant within the Calvinist tradition.