Carel van Nievelt (June 20, 1843 in
Delfshaven
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The town of Delfshaven grew around the port of the city of Delft. Delft itself was not located on a major ri ...
– August 2, 1913 in
Wiesbaden
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) was a Dutch novelist and journalist who also published using the pseudonyms Gabriël and J. van den Oude. He wrote travel stories and fantasies.
Biography
Van Nievelt had a short stint at being a civil servant in the
Dutch East Indies
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before he returned to the Netherlands. There he became an editor for the daily
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
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History
was first published on 1 October 1970 after a merger of the Amst ...
(1869) and a contributor to ''Los en vast''. Later he wrote book reviews using the pseudonym ''J. van den Oude'' for the daily
Nieuws van den Dag.
In 1895 he moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where he died in 1913 at the age of seventy.
Bibliography
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Ontboezemingen - ''Revelations'' (1869, as Gabriël)
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Phantasiën - ''Fantasies'' (1874)
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Fragmenten - ''Fragments'' (1875)
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In bonte rij (1879)
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Chiaroscuro
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(1882)
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Ahasverus(1883)
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Een Alpenboek (1886)
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Bergstudiën - ''Mountain studies'' (1888)
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Herman Wolsink (1889)
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Onder zeil (1891)
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Litterarische Interludiën (1891, as J. van den Oude)
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Uit de poppenkraam onzer Romantiek (1903, as J. van den Oude)
External links
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1843 births
1913 deaths
19th-century Dutch novelists
19th-century Dutch male writers
Dutch male novelists
Dutch journalists
Writers from Rotterdam
Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies