J. H. Leopold

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

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.

In a more modern vein, his deafness undoubtedly contributed to the melancholic tone of much of his Symbolist work of the literary Dutch Renaissance.

His on-campus cenotaph includes his portrait and one of his poems.