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Jacob van Lennep (1802–1868)
Lennep, Jacob van (len’nep). A celebrated Dutch poet; born at Amsterdam, March 24, 1802; died at Oosterbeek, Aug. 25, 1868. He translated some of Byron’s poems. His first volume of original verse, ‘Academic Idylls’ (1826), won little attention; but his ‘Legends of the Netherlands’ were received with universal applause. The ‘Legends’ comprise among others: ‘Adegild’ (1828); ‘Jacoba and Bertha’ (1829); ‘The Struggle with Flanders’ (1831); ‘Edward van Gelre’ (1847).