Jacob van Lennep

Jacob van Lennep (born March 24, 1802, Amsterdam, Neth.—died Aug. 25, 1868, Oosterbeek) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and leading man of letters in the mid-19th century. Early in his career van Lennep found his natural genre, the historical novel, and his first such work, De pleegzoon (1833; The Adopted Son), was set in the 17th century. Like many of his later works it contains a strong element of adventure and a complicated plot. De...