Marcellus Emants (12 August 1848 â€" 14 October 1923) was a Dutch
novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch
Naturalism. His writing is seen as a first step towards the renewing
force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch literature, a movement
which started around the 1880s. His most well-known work is A
Posthumous Confession, published in 1894, translated by J. M.
Coetzee.Marcellus Emants was born on 12 August 1848 in Voorburg,
Netherlands. He was born in a family of magistrates from The Hague.[1]
His father was the judge Guilliam Balthasar Emants (1818â€"1870) and
his mother was Anna Elisabeth Petronella Verwey Mejan
(1824â€"1908).[2][3]Emants went to the hogereburgerschool in The Hague
and completed the five-year program.[4] In 1868, at the age of 20, he
started his Law studies at the Leiden University in Leiden.[4] Emants
complied with his father's wish to study Law, until his father's death
in 1871.[1]
novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch
Naturalism. His writing is seen as a first step towards the renewing
force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch literature, a movement
which started around the 1880s. His most well-known work is A
Posthumous Confession, published in 1894, translated by J. M.
Coetzee.Marcellus Emants was born on 12 August 1848 in Voorburg,
Netherlands. He was born in a family of magistrates from The Hague.[1]
His father was the judge Guilliam Balthasar Emants (1818â€"1870) and
his mother was Anna Elisabeth Petronella Verwey Mejan
(1824â€"1908).[2][3]Emants went to the hogereburgerschool in The Hague
and completed the five-year program.[4] In 1868, at the age of 20, he
started his Law studies at the Leiden University in Leiden.[4] Emants
complied with his father's wish to study Law, until his father's death
in 1871.[1]
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