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Biography
Jan Hendrik Leopold (May 11, 1865 – June 21, 1925) was a Dutch poet and classicist. Leopold was born at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. 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. He died in Rotterdam. The school commemorates him with a bronze and stone monument including his portrait and one of his poems.
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