Jan ten Brink (June 15, 1834 in Appingedam, Netherlands – July 18, 1901 in Leiden) was a Dutch writer. He studied in Leiden, went to Batavia for a few years and in 1862 he became a teacher at a secondary school in The Hague. In 1884 he became professor in Dutch literature at the Leiden University. Ten Brink was a conservative writer. Conrad Busken Huet and, especially, the 'movement of 80', writers and poets who were far more progressive than Ten Brink, attacked him on several occasions in literary magazines such as De Gids and De Nieuwe Gids.
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