Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate [SEP] native language
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (December 23, 1819 – December 24, 1889) was a Dutch divine, prose writer and poet.
Life.
He was born at The Hague.
He started in life as a lawyer's clerk. It was his friend, Dr Heldring, pastor at Hemmen, in Gelderland, who, discovering in Ten Kate the germs of poetical genius, enabled him to study theology at the University of Utrecht (1838–43).
Having completed his studies
to Japan in 1898. He lived in Japan for 11 years and practiced medicine at Kobe.
Later life.
In 1906, ten Kate married Kimi Fujii, a woman from Yokohama. They visited Europe between 1909 and 1913. Subsequent to her death in 1919, he returned to Amsterdam. During his last years, he suffered from cardiac problems; he died in 1931. Ten Kate was a nephew of Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate.