Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit

Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (6 December 1903, in Heumen, Gelderland – 20 June 1986) was a poet and an influential Dutch literary historian.

Smit worked as a teacher for 17 years, before he accepted a professorship in Dutch literature at the University of Utrecht in 1945.

He published various works of poetry[1][2][3] and editions of a number of 16th and 17th century Dutch poets.

[4][5] He gained academic renown with a number of studies on various aspects of 17th century Dutch literature.

[6][7] Through his publications and his guidance to doctoral students, he had a considerable influence on the development of Dutch literary history in the 20th century.