Carel van Nievelt (June 20, 1843 in

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– August 2, 1913 in

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) was a Dutch novelist and journalist who also published using the pseudonyms Gabriël and J. van den Oude. He wrote travel stories and fantasies.

Biography

Van Nievelt had a short stint at being a civil servant in the

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before he returned to the Netherlands. There he became an editor for the daily

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(1869) and a contributor to ''Los en vast''. Later he wrote book reviews using the pseudonym ''J. van den Oude'' for the daily Nieuws van den Dag. In 1895 he moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where he died in 1913 at the age of seventy.

Bibliography

* Ontboezemingen - ''Revelations'' (1869, as Gabriël) * Phantasiën - ''Fantasies'' (1874) * Fragmenten - ''Fragments'' (1875) * In bonte rij (1879) *

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(1882) *

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(1883) * Een Alpenboek (1886) * Bergstudiën - ''Mountain studies'' (1888) * Herman Wolsink (1889) * Onder zeil (1891) * Litterarische Interludiën (1891, as J. van den Oude) * Uit de poppenkraam onzer Romantiek (1903, as J. van den Oude)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nievelt, Carel Van 1843 births 1913 deaths 19th-century Dutch novelists 19th-century Dutch male writers Dutch male novelists Dutch journalists Writers from Rotterdam