Online Encyclopedia

MARK PRAGER LINDO (1819-1879)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 719 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

MARK PRAGER LINDO (1819-1879)  , Dutch
See also:
prose writer, of
See also:
English-Jewish descent, was born in
See also:
London on the 18th of September 1819 . He went to Holland when nineteen years of age, and once established there as a private teacher of the English language, he soon made up his mind to remain . In 1842 he passed his examination at Arnhem, qualifying him as a professor of English in Holland, subsequently becoming a teacher of the English language and literature at the gymnasium in that
See also:
town . In 1853 he was appointed in a similar capacity at the Royal Military Academy in
See also:
Breda . Meanwhile Lindo had obtained a thorough grasp of the Dutch language, partly during his student years at Utrecht University, where in 1854 he gained the degree of doctor of literature . His proficiency in the two
See also:
languages led him to translate into Dutch several of the
See also:
works of Dickens, Thackeray and others, and afterwards also of Fielding, Sterne and Walter Scott- some of Lindo's
See also:
translations
See also:
bore the imprint of hasty and careless
See also:
work, and all were very unequal in quality . His name is much more likely to endure as the writer of humorous
See also:
original sketches and novelettes in Dutch, which he published under the pseudonym of De Oude Herr Smits (" Old Mr Smits ") . Among the most popular are: Brieven en Ontboezemingen (" Letters and Confessions," 1853, with three " Continuations ") ; Familie
See also:
van Ons ("
See also:
Family of Ours," 1855); Bekentenissen eener Jonge Dame (" Confessions of a Young Lady," 1858); Uittreksels uit het Dagboek van Wijlen den Heer Jasvus Snor (" Extracts from the
See also:
Diary of the
See also:
late Mr
See also:
Janus Snor," 1865); Typen (" Types," '871); and, particularly, Afdrukken van Indrukken (" Impressions from Impressions," 1854, reprinted many times) . The last-named was written in collaboration with Lodewyk Mulder, who contributed some of its drollest whimsicalities of Dutch
See also:
life and character, which, for that reason, are almost untranslatable . Lodewyk Mulder and Lindo also founded together, and carried on, for a considerable time alone, the Nederlandsche Spectator (" The Dutch Spectator "), a
See also:
literary weekly, still published at The Hague, which bears little resemblance to its English prototype, and which perhaps reached its greatest popularity and influence when Vosmaer contributed to it a brilliant weekly letter under the fanciful title of Vlugmaren (" Swifts ") . Lindo's serious original Dutch writings he published under his own name, the
See also:
principal one being De Opkomst en Ontwikkeling van het Engelsche Volk (" The Rise and Development of the
See also:
British
See also:
People," 2 vols . 1868–1874)—a valuable
See also:
history .

Lodewyk Mulder published in 1877–1879 a collected edition of Lindo's writings in five volumes, and there has since been a popular reissue . Lindo was appointed an inspector of

See also:
primary
See also:
schools in the province of South Holland in 1865, a
See also:
post he held until his
See also:
death at The Hague on the 9th of March 1879 .

End of Article: MARK PRAGER LINDO (1819-1879)
[back]
WILLIAM LINDLEY (1808–1900)
[next]
LINDSAY

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.