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Annie Salomons
Annie Salomons (1885–1980) was a Dutch writer, poet and translator. Early life and poetry Anna Maria Francisca van Wageningen-Salomons was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 26 June 1885, second daughter of Constant Theodor Salomons, director of a gasworks, and Trinette Marie Catherine Kortman-Salomons. The family lived in a large house next to the gasworks, which was remote from other middle-class houses and other children. She has written that she had a lonely childhood after her sister went to school. At the age of 16 she was in love with the poet Carel Gerretson and they remained friends until his death in 1958. After leaving secondary school, she taught at the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam, before following her sister to Leiden University, where she studied Dutch literature, and then to Utrecht University. She ended her studies in 1910, without having taken an exam, and then returned to live with her parents, who had by then moved to The Hague. She stayed with them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the Nieuwe Maas, New Meuse inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse at first and now to the Rhine. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte (river), Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William II, Count of Hainaut, William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the List of urban areas in the European Union, 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest seaport. In 2022, Rotterdam had a population of 655,468 and is home to over 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
