J. H. Leopold
Dutch writer
Died when: 60 years 41 days (721 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Jan Hendrik Leopold (May 11, 1865 – June 21, 1925) was a Dutch poet and classicist.Leopold was born at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.After living in Arnhem he moved to Rotterdam early in 1892, where he became a teacher of classical languages at the Gymnasium Erasmianum.
He translated portions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Dutch.He died in Rotterdam.The school commemorates him with a bronze and stone monument including his portrait and one of his poems.
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