Brink, JAN TEN

Brink, JAN TEN, a Dutch writer, born 15th June 1834, at Appingadam, studied theology at Utrecht, but early devoted himself to literary studies. After a short residence at Batavia, he returned in 1862 to teach Dutch at the Hague, and since that time has earned for himself a foremost place as a critic of acuteness and insight, especially in the department of fiction and belles-lettres. A popular novel of his own is Het verloren Kind (1879); and his Causserien over Moderne Romans (1885) is a valuable critique of modern novels.—BERNARD TEN BRINK, philologist, born at Amsterdam in 1841, from 1861 to 1865 studied philology at Münster and Bonn, and in 1870 became professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Marburg, in 1873 at Strasburg. Among his works are two books on Chaucer (1870 and 1884), a history of English literature (1874; Eng. trans. 1883), one on Beowulf (1882), and two volumes of literary remains. He died at Strasburg 29th January 1892.