Piet Meertens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piet Meertens

Dutch literary critic (1899-1985)

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1899

Place of Birth: Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1985

Profession: literary critic

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (Middelburg, 6 September 1899 – Amstelveen, 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology.
He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut (a research institute operated by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), of which he was the director until 1965.