1. Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism.
16 Facts About Marcellus Emants
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Marcellus Emants's 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.
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Marcellus Emants was born on 12 August 1848 in Voorburg, Netherlands.
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Marcellus Emants was born in a family of magistrates from The Hague.
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Marcellus Emants's father was the judge Guilliam Balthasar Emants and his mother was Anna Elisabeth Petronella Verwey Mejan.
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Marcellus Emants complied with his father's wish to study Law, until his father's death in 1871.
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Marcellus Emants did well at university, but his heart lay with the arts, not with legal matters.
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Marcellus Emants avoided the student scene in the Dutch university town of Leiden, but founded a literary club, Quatuor, with a few friends from The Hague.
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Marcellus Emants seemed better at ease in the Alps than in the lowlands and as a result made yearly trips to the former.
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Marcellus Emants himself was a bit surprised about the attention which his text had attracted, but kept on travelling and developed a genre of 'travel account which is much more than a travel account.
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Marcellus Emants kept a sober style and a subject which was idealistically pessimistic.
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Marcellus Emants's examples were Emile Zola, Hippolyte Taine and Ivan Turgenev, with the latter even keeping correspondence.
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Marcellus Emants attended the state commission for the reform of Dutch spelling as well, which did not succeed in its set-up however.
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Marcellus Emants died on 20 October 1923 in the Grand Hotel in Baden and was interred in The Hague on the General Cemetery.
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Marcellus Emants was sadly widowed two years after the marriage, in 1875.
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Marcellus Emants published a novel in 1887 under the pseudonym Nessuno: Beemsen Esquire and died in 1900.