Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck

He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC in Rome and London, but also a poet, critic, essayist and philosopher from the Netherlands.

Van Eyck attended Gymnasium Haganum before studying law.

[2] After Albert Verwey resigned from the university of Leiden in 1935, van Eyck took on the professorship for Dutch language and literature there, a position which he held until his death.

They were the parents of: His most famous poem "Death and the Gardener" (1926)[6] is a theme taken from Jean Cocteau’s novel "Le grand écart".

The Van Eyck poem was translated in English by David Colmer in 2007.