K. ten (Karel) Bruggencate

Born in Almelo on November 28, 1849, Karel ten Bruggencate became an English teacher and later taught at the gymnasium in Leeuwarden. He built his reputation through careful language work, especially his two-part Engelsch woordenboek, which covered both English–Dutch and Dutch–English and began appearing in the 1890s.

His dictionary was published by J.B. Wolters in Groningen and continued to be reissued over the years, showing how widely it was used. Sources also describe him as an inspector for secondary education in the Netherlands in the early 20th century, suggesting that his influence reached beyond the classroom and into the broader world of language teaching.

Ten Bruggencate died in Zeist on December 23, 1922. Though not a widely known literary figure today, he remains an important name in Dutch reference publishing and in the history of English teaching in the Netherlands.