Biografie
Louis Couperus
- Geboren am
- Verstorben16. Juli 1923 · De Steeg, Gelderland, Niederlande (pneumonia and blood poisoning)
- GeburtsnameLouis Marie Anne Couperus
- Louis Couperus wurde am 10 Juni 1863 in den Niederlande geboren. Er war Autor, bekannt für Eline Vere (1991), Van oude mensen, de dingen die voorbij gaan (1975) und De kleine zielen (1969). Er war mit Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud verheiratet. Er starb am 16 Juli 1923 in den Niederlande.
- EhepartnerElisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud(9. September 1891 - 16. Juli 1923) (er verstorben)
- Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.
- His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches.
- Through his father, he was a great-grandson of Abraham Couperus (1752-1813), Governor of Malacca, and Willem Jacob Cranssen (1762-1821), Governor of Ambon with a female-line, Eurasian lineage that goes back even earlier to the mid-eighteenth century.
- In 1883 he attended the opera written by Charles Gounod Le tribute de Zamora; he later used elements of this opera in his novel Eline Vere.
- Louis Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet.
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