P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

Born in Liège in 1829 and raised in the Netherlands, he was the son of scholar Petrus van Limburg Brouwer. He studied at the University of Groningen and earned doctorates in both law and letters, building the broad intellectual background that would shape his later writing.

Alongside his literary work, he was active in public life as a politician. He also worked with Sanskrit literature, and modern reference sources describe him as both a translator and a writer with a strong interest in India and the wider East.

He died in The Hague in 1873 at just 43. Although his life was short, he left behind a reputation for learned, imaginative prose, especially through Akbar: An Eastern Romance, the work for which he is most often remembered today.