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Hens Clinge Doorenbos

Hens Clinge Doorenbos was a Dutch poet quoted by Anne Frank.

Person

  • Johannes Pieter Jacobus Helmich Clinge Doorenbos

Hens Clinge Doorenbos (1884-1978) was a Dutch journalist, singer and poet. Starting in 1921, Doorenbos wrote a daily poem in De Telegraaf on a current event.[1] Anne quotes two of these poems in her diary, on 5 May and 9 June 1944.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Zie http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinge_Doorenbos (geraadpleegd mei 2012).
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 5 May 1944 and 9 June 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.