LENNEP, JAN DANIEL TAN, a Dutch philologist, was b. at Leeuwarden, in the prov ince of Friesland, in 1724, and studied at Franeker and Leyden. In 1752 he was appointed professor of ancient languages at Groningen, and fifteen years afterwards at Franeker. He died in 1771. The works which principally obtained. hint a reputation for learning and acuteness are his Etymologicum Lingua GrCECC8 and his De Analogill Linguce Orceace, both of which were posthumously published. The progress of etymo logical science, however, has rendered them useless.—Davro JAcou VAN LENNEP, a member of the same family as the preceding, was b. at Amsterdam, July 15, 1774, devoted himself to the study of philology, and ultimately became professor of rhetoric at Leyden. He died Feb. 10, 1853. Besides being one of the best Latinists among his countrymen, he wrote several exquisite pieces of poetry in his mother-tongue. His principal writings are Carmina Juvenilia (Amst. 1791), Evereitationes jurix (Leyil. 1796), valuable annotated editions of some of the classic authors, and a metrical Dutch transla tion of the Works and Days of Hesiod (Amst. 1823).—His son, JACOB VAN LICs:NEP, b. at Amsterdam, Mar. 25, 1802, is proudly called by his countrymen the "Walter Scott of Holland." Educated for the law, he passed as a barrister, and soon achieved a great
reputation for legal knowledge. Yet without neglecting his extensive practice, he for more than thirty years cultivated literature with untiring assiduity, and, considering the drudgery of his professional work, with astonishing success. Lennep first appeared as an author shortly before 1830, in a work entitled Vaderlandsche Legenden (National Legends). Since then his most popular works have been the comedies, Het Dorp can die Grenzen (The Frontier Village. 1830), Het Do-rp over die Grenzen (The Tillage over the Frontier, 1830), and the novels, Onze Voorouders (Our Forefathers), De Roos van Dekanza (The Rose of liekama, 1837—English by Woodley, 1847), and De Pleegzoon (The Adopted Son—English by Hoskins,' New York, 1847). Lennep, who possessed a remarkable knowledge of the English language and literature, has translated into Dutch seine of Shakespeare's finest plays, and of Byron, Southey, and Tennyson's poems. A. complete edition of his dramatic works, comprising tragedies, comedies, and operas, appeared at Amsterdam in 1852-55. He was engaged for several years on an edition of the great Dutch poet Vondel. He died Aug. 25, 1868.