Joannis Adrianus Nelinus Knuttel (1878–1965) was a Dutch literary and political activist. He came from a latitudinarian liberal family, reading socialist literature at a young age. He went to study at the university in Leiden and, becoming familiar with Marxist writings, especially those of

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. In 1903 he became a member of the

SDAP SDAP may refer to: * Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), a Dutch political party founded in 1894 that later merged into the Labour Party (Netherlands) * Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany The Social Democratic Workers' Party o ...

. In 1906 he became one of the authors of the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. In 1907 he became an editor of De Sociaal-Demokraat. Later that year he co-founded De Tribune,The Tribune a Marxist paper. During WWII he was not involved in the resistance and during the Cold War he became increasingly estranged from the

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, of which he was now a member. He was a member of the municipal council of

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...

on multiple occasions throughout his career.

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