Albert Verwey
Illustration — Albert Verwey by Jan Veth (1885) • Illustration — Albert Verwey by Jan Veth Albert Verwey (May 15, 1865 – March 8, 1937) was a Dutch poet belonging to the Tachtiger movement, so called after the number [18]80, eighty. Verwey was born in the center of Amsterdam; all his life he spoke with a strong local accent. Both his father and grandfather were furniture makers.
Also recorded as Albert Verweij · A. Verwey · A. Verweij
Albert Verwey

Jan Veth · Rijksmuseum Amsterdam · Public domain
- Born
- 1865 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1937 · Noordwijk aan Zee.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- poet · translator · writer · university teacher · professor · literary scholar · critic
- Education
- Leiden University
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Albert Verwey by Jan Veth (1885) • Illustration — Albert Verwey by Jan Veth Albert Verwey (May 15, 1865 – March 8, 1937) was a Dutch poet belonging to the Tachtiger movement, so called after the number [18]80, eighty. Verwey was born in the center of Amsterdam; all his life he spoke with a strong local accent. Both his father and grandfather were furniture makers.
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Identity and origins
Identity and origins
In his youth, he lost both his parents, caused by tuberculosis. Verwey began to write poetry early in life. In 1880 he translated poems by Samuel Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth. After finishing high school Verwey worked at a securities office. Because Verwey was very good in English, the 18-years-old Verwey was invited by the Dutch directors of the Maxwell Land Grant to join them as translator to Cimarron, New Mexico. His first book of poems, titled Persephone after the Greek goddess, was published in 1883. In 1885 he was a co-founder of the periodical De Nieuwe Gids (“The New Guide”), the chief magazine of the Dutch literary revival of the 1880s. Verwey contributed sonnets and other poetry. In 1888 his translation of Gulliver's Travels was published. Verwey was a close friend of the prominent 'Tachtiger' poet Willem Kloos, and a love affair developed between the two poets, that was unprecedented in Dutch literature. Their relation ended in 1888. In 1889 he failed his Latin examinations. In the same year, his collected poems were published for the first time, with added translations of Christopher Marlowe. In 1890 Verwey married and moved to a house called Villa Nova in Noordwijk aan Zee. Novelist, poet and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden became his brother-in-law. Verwey was involved in the decoration of the Beurs van Berlage, a "synthesis of the arts". For a time he was influenced by Spinozism and Socialism through his wife. Since 1895 he was friends with the esoteric German poet Stefan George, whose work he translated. From 1924 till 1935 Verwey was a professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Verwey translated and promoted medieval poetry in search of passion, vision, and dreams. Although no Dutch writer has ever won the Nobel Prize in Literature he is among the Dutch writers to have been nominated by multiple people. Verwey was a prolific writer; apart from his 25 volumes of poetry and three separate 'collected poems' his prose works were published in ten volumes designed in art-deco. At the University of Amsterdam his carefully kept correspondence (of 20,000 letters) can be consulted. • Illustration — 'Stoa', wall poem in Leiden • Illustration — Poem on the Beurs van Berlage, the Amsterdam commodity exchange • Illustration — Tomb in Noordwijk • Illustration — Bust in Noordwijk
Albert Verwey studied at Leiden University. The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam and Leiden. Employment is recorded with Leiden University. Positions recorded include full professor. Work by Albert Verwey is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
The authorities additionally record the headings Albert Verweij, A. Verwey and A. His recorded language was Dutch. He married Kitty van Vloten. 3 children are recorded: Mea Verwey, Gerlof Verwey and Jan Verwey. Other recorded relations include Johannes van Vloten, Martha van Vloten and Betsy van Vloten.
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Albert Verwey is recorded as poet, translator, writer, university teacher and professor.
Albert Verwey, bronsportret op stenen zuil met inscriptie.
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1865
Albert Verwey born at Amsterdam.
1890
Biekorf. (KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor religie, cultuur en samenleving).
1937
Albert Verwey died at Noordwijk aan Zee.
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Amsterdam.
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Noordwijk aan Zee.
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scholarly publication
- Albert verwey: vijf gedichten, Dutch Crossing, 1979
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1979
- Vision and Form in the Poetry of Albert Verwey, World Literature Today, 1987
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1987
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q586323: Albert Verwey
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- “Albert Verwey”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Literature
Literature
Literature
Albert verwey: vijf gedichten, Dutch Crossing, 1979
Albert Verwey en Stefan George, de documenten van hun vriendschap, Books Abroad, 1966
Albert Verwey und Stefan George
Madelon de Keizer, Als een meeuw op de golven
Albert Verwey en zijn tijd, BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2018
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- 1.Derde hoofdstuk Dichters dageraad, De jeugd van een dichter, Maurits Uyldert. DBNL.
- 2.Militieregisters. Gearchiveerd op 11 november 2020.
- 3.WL: Verweij 1865-1937, Nederlands Letterkundig Museum en Documentatiecentrum, Mededelingen van de Documentatiedienst (1982).
- 4.Menno ter Braak: "Stefan George en Albert Verwey: Herinneringen aan een vriendschap - De dichter en zijn kring", Het Vaderland, donderdag 29 maart 1934, avondblad C. Gearchiveerd op 16 december 2017.
- 5.Stefan George: Dante: Die göttliche Komödie: Übertragungen. Sämtliche Werke in 18 Bänden, herausgegeben von der Stefan George Stiftung, Band X/XI. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1988, 2013, p. 182.
- 6.Stefan George: Dante: Die göttliche Komödie: Übertragungen. Sämtliche Werke in 18 Bänden, herausgegeben von der Stefan George Stiftung, Band X/XI. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1988, 2013, p. 144.
- 7.Het Parool 6 okt. 2011
- 8.De historische spelen van Albert Verwey., De Nieuwe Taalgids. Jaargang 35. DBNL.
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Albert verwey: vijf gedichten, Dutch Crossing, 1979Crossref registry
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He was employed by Leiden University. Recorded position is full professor. He belonged to Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. He worked at Amsterdam and Leiden.
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Biekorf
1890 · KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor religie, cultuur en samenleving
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