Jan Greshoff [SEP] date of death
Jan Greshoff
Jan Greshoff (15 December 1888, Nieuw-Helvoet – 19 March 1971, Cape Town) was a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic. He was the 1967 recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize.
Partial list of works.
- 1909 - "Aan den verlaten vijver"
- 1910 - "Door mijn open venster..."
- 1918 - "Latijnsche lente"
- 1924 - "De ceder"
- 1924 - "Mengelstoffen o.h. gebied der Fransche Letterkunde"
death, when his remaining poetry was to be published, his father wanted thirteen of his son's poems scrapped, though the editors did include them.
After his diagnosis with leukemia, he spent his last months sustained by blood transfusions in a Swiss sanatorium. He was 26 when he died.
Publications.
In 1951 Lodeizen was awarded the Jan Campert Prize, posthumously. A selection of his poems was added to "Het innerlijk behang" and published in 1952, edited by J. C. Bloem, Jan Greshoff,