Marita Theodora Catharina Mathijsen-Verkooijen (born 8 August 1944 in Belfeld) is professor of modern Dutch literature at the

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, with her speciality as the literature of the nineteenth century in the Netherlands. Mathijsen graduated with work on the correspondence between

Jacob van Lennep Jacob van Lennep (24 March 1802 – 25 August 1868) was a Dutch poet and novelist. Early years He was born in Amsterdam, where his father, David Jacob van Lennep (1774–1853), a scholar and poet, was professor of eloquence and the classical lan ...

and (also known as "De schoolmeester" - the schoolmaster). She is also editor in chief of the periodical ''De Negentiende Eeuw'' (The Nineteenth Century) and has many editions on the nineteenth-century Dutch

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s. Apart from that she wrote various books on that period.

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