Jan Hendrik Leopold (May 11, 1865 – June 21, 1925) was a Dutch poet and classicist.

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Leopold was born at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. After living in Arnhem he moved to Rotterdam early in 1892, where he became a teacher of classical languages at the Gymnasium Erasmianum.

He translated portions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Dutch.

He died in Rotterdam. The school commemorates him with a bronze and stone monument including his portrait and one of his poems.

Works

• Studia Peerlkampiana (1892)
• Ad Spinozae opera posthuma (1902)
• Stoïsche wijsheid (1904)
• M. Antonius Imperator (1908)
• Uit den tuin van Epicurus (1910)
• Verzen (1912)
• Cheops (1916)
• Oostersch (1924)
• Verzen II (1926)

External links

• Media related to J.H. Leopold at Wikimedia Commons
• (in Dutch) Koninklijke Bibliotheek - J.H. Leopold
• (in Dutch) Digitale Bibliotheek Nederlandse Letteren - J.H. Leopold

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