Frederik van Eeden

Frederik Willem van Eeden (3 April 1860, Haarlem – 16 June 1932, Bussum) was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist.

He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885.

Van Eeden's psychiatrist practice included treating his fellow Tachtiger Willem Kloos as a patient starting in 1888.

This ethic is memorialized in the line "Waar de mensheid is, en haar weedom, daar is mijn weg."

He corresponded with Hermann Hesse, Charles Lloyd Tuckey (medical hypnotist), Harold Williams and was a friend of Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist living in London.

[1] 2 ^ Augustinus P. Dierick: "Self-Stylization and Narrative Strategies in Frederik van Eeden's roman à thèse De nachtbruid."