- Frederik van Eeden was born on April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer, known for The Cool Lakes of Death (1982) and De heks van Haarlem (1970). He was married to Geertruida Woutrina Everts and Martha van Vloten. He died on June 16, 1932 in Bussum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- SpousesGeertruida Woutrina Everts(August 29, 1907 - June 16, 1932) (his death, 2 children)Martha van Vloten(April 15, 1886 - June 29, 1907) (divorced, 2 children)
- He was widely admired in the Netherlands in his own time for his writings, as well as his status as the first internationally prominent Dutch psychiatrist.
- His best known written work, "De Kleine Johannes" ("Little Johannes"), which first appeared in the premiere issue of De Nieuwe Gids, was a fantastical adventure of an everyman who grows up to face the harsh realities of the world around him and the emptiness of hopes for a better afterlife, but ultimately finding meaning in serving the good of those around him. This ethic is memorialized in the line "Waar de mensheid is, en haar weedom, daar is mijn weg." ("Where mankind is, and her woe, there is my path.").
- He corresponded with Hermann Hesse, Charles Lloyd Tuckey (medical hypnotist), Harold Williams and was a friend of Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist living in London.
- In late years of his life, Van Eeden became a Roman Catholic.
- Frederik van Eeden was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist.
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