Kampen, 18 Jan 1818; studied theology at leiden and graduated D.D. in '43. He has, however, devoted himself to literature, and produced many works, translating plays of Shakespeare, editing Spinoza, and writing his life-translated into English by A. Menzies.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
The sudden break-up of Bertha's house-that house which she was so fond of visiting, because she found in it the continuation of her own life, the reflection of her own past grandeur-had fallen on her as a painful blow: Van Naghel's sudden death; the sort of apathy into which Bertha had sunk; the divorce between Van Raven and Emilie after Emilie had refused to come back from abroad, preferring to stay in Paris with her brother Henri, who had been sent down from leiden: a divorce obtained in the face of all the persuasion which Uncle van Naghel, the Queen's Commissary in Overijssel, had brought to bear upon them; Louise living with Otto and Frances, in order to help Frances, who was always ailing, with the children, so that Bertha was living alone with Marianne in her little villa at Baarn, now that Frans had taken his degree and gone to India, while Karel and Marietje were at boarding-school.
"The Twilight of the Souls"
Louis Couperus
Well, you see, Henri too-yes, Granny isn't quite in her dotage yet-leaving leiden like that!
"The Twilight of the Souls"
Louis Couperus
