Frederik van Eeden

Frederik Willem van Eeden ( born April 3, 1860 in Haarlem, † June 16, 1932 in Bussum ) was a Dutch psychologist, social reformer and writer.

Life

Frederik van Eeden was the son of Frederik Willem van Eeden and grew up in an environment where the art and science played an important role. In 1878 he began to study medicine in Amsterdam. 1886 doctorate Van Eeden and settled in Bussum as a general practitioner down. However, he quickly specialized in psychotherapy. The early 1880s played Van Eeden an important role in the Amsterdam student life and published his first article. He became a member of the Dutch Association Flanor writer. In 1885 he founded the Frank Goes, Willem Kloos, Willem Paap and Albert Verwey magazine De Nieuwe Gids, which should be the mouthpiece of the Beweging van tachtig. The first editions of Nieuwe Gids included parts of the written by Van Eeden tale De Kleine Johannes. The tale was published as a book in 1887. Van Eeden in 1894 left the editorship of the Nieuwe Gids.

On April 15, 1886 Frederik van Eeden Martha van Vloten married. They were parents of two sons. On June 29, 1907 she got divorced. On August 21, 1907 Van Eeden married his second wife Geertruida Woutrina Everts, with whom he had also two sons.

Van Eeden was published in 1900 psychological novel Van de koele mers of doods. The work has since been reprinted several times and is still frequently read. 1982, the novel by Nouchka van Brakel was filmed.

The colony Walden in Bussum was an attempt to give his social views a concrete shape. The experiment, which only a few years had inventory ( 1898-1907 ), was for the development of Dutch socialism of importance.

In the lucid dream research van Eeden is attributed to the introduction of the term lucid dream.

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