Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pieter Jelles Troelstra

Dutch politician

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1860

Place of Birth: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 12-May-1930

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician, poet lawyer, journalist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Pieter Jelles Troelstra (Leeuwarden, 20 April 1860 – The Hague, 12 May 1930) was a Dutch lawyer, journalist and politician active in the socialist workers' movement.
He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the end of World War I.
From 1888 to 1904, Troelstra was married to Sjoukje Bokma de Boer, a well-known children's book writer, under the pen name of Nienke van Hichtum.