Marita Mathijsen

Marita Theodora Catharina Mathijsen-Verkooijen (born 8 August 1944 in Belfeld) is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam, with her speciality[1] as the literature of the nineteenth century in the Netherlands.

Mathijsen graduated with work on the correspondence between Jacob van Lennep and Gerrit van de Linde [nl] (also known as "De schoolmeester" - the schoolmaster).

She is also editor in chief of the periodical De Negentiende Eeuw (The Nineteenth Century) and has many editions on the nineteenth-century Dutch classics.

Apart from that she wrote various books on that period.

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