David Jacob van Lennep

David Jacob van Lennep (Amsterdam, July 15 1774 – February 11 1853) was Professor of Latin and Greek at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, and a poet in Dutch and Neo-Latin. Education and private life David Jacob van Lennep was a member of the Van Lennep Amsterdam patrician family. He was the son of Cornelis van Lennep (1751-1813) and Cornelia Henrietta van de Poll (1753-1827). Van Lennep attended a common nursery school, as his father advocated education without class differentiation. From his fifth to tenth year he attended the French school, and then the Latin school in Amsterdam. At the latter he was a classmate of Matthijs Siegenbeek, who later became the first university professor of Dutch language and rhetorics.