Dutch professor of German literature and former president of the Studievereniging voor Psychical Research (Dutch Society for Psychical Research). He was born on March 6, 1907, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He spent his college career at the University of Groningen (B.A., 1932; M.A., German philology and literature, 1935; Ph.D., 1948). After graduation he became a grammar school teacher of German (1935-52) before assuming a position as a professor of German literature and literary theory at the University of Utrecht in 1952. He died August 19, 1973.
Sources:
Teesing, H. P. H. "Mystiek en Literatuur" (Mysticism and Literature). Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie (1959).
