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G. C. Hoogewerff

b. 1857

A Dutch writer whose work turns up in early-20th-century literary magazines as well as in the historical novel Onder de duinkerkers. The surviving record is slim, which gives the name a quiet air of mystery.

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Jacob Martens: Een verhaal uit de zestiende eeuw

Jacob Martens: Een verhaal uit de zestiende eeuw

by G. C. Hoogewerff

About the author

G. C. Hoogewerff appears in the Digital Library of Dutch Literature as a Dutch author with a small but varied body of work. DBNL lists poems or prose pieces including Winteravond from 1902, Uit de bosschen van 't Sticht from 1903, and In het Collosseum, along with the separately published book Onder de duinkerkers from 1928.

That suggests a writer active across several decades, moving between shorter magazine pieces and longer historical storytelling. Onder de duinkerkers was later issued in another edition, which hints that the book found enough readers to stay in circulation.

Beyond those publication traces, I could not confirm many personal details from reliable sources during this search, so this is one of those authors best known through the work rather than a well-documented public life.