Jan Feith

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Jan Feith

1874–1944

A Dutch writer and journalist whose work ranged from fiction and travel writing to lively books for younger readers, he also brought an energetic interest in sport to his career. Writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he built a varied body of work that still turns up in literary archives and reprints.

2 Audiobooks

In de Hollandsche Branding : Een Jongensboek van de Zee

In de Hollandsche Branding : Een Jongensboek van de Zee

by Jan Feith

In de Amsterdamsche Jodenbuurt

In de Amsterdamsche Jodenbuurt

by Jan Feith

About the author

Born in 1874 and dying in 1944, Jan Feith was a Dutch author and journalist active during a period when newspapers, magazines, and popular books reached an expanding audience. His surviving work shows a broad curiosity about everyday life, travel, and entertainment, rather than a narrow focus on a single genre.

Feith wrote fiction as well as nonfiction, and his books included titles for younger readers. Bibliographic records and digital library entries also connect him with sports writing, which fits his reputation as a lively, wide-ranging public writer rather than a purely literary specialist.

Today he is remembered mainly through Dutch literary databases, digitized editions, and archival references. That legacy gives a picture of an adaptable early-20th-century man of letters who moved comfortably between journalism and books.