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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Willem Jozef Andries Jonckbloet (1817–1885)

Jonckbloet, Willem Jozef Andries (yonk’blöt”). A Dutch historian of literature, also essayist and critic; born at The Hague, July 6, 1817; died in Wiesbaden, Oct. 19, 1885. He is an authority on Dutch letters, his masterpieces on ‘The Middle Dutch Epic’ (1849), ‘The History of Middle Dutch Literature’ (1851–54), and ‘Study of the Romance of Renard’ (1863), exhausting those subjects; and his editions of Dutch classics are the standard.