Jakob van Schevichaven
Jakob van Schevichaven (born June 20, 1866 in Sneek , Fryslân ; † May 20, 1935 in The Hague , Zuid-Holland ) was a Dutch writer who wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Ivan . His debut novel De man uit Frankrijk from 1917 is considered the first effective Dutch detective novel.
life and work
Jakob van Schevichaven was the only child of Samuel van Schevichaven and Martina Melink. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1867 , where Jakob van Schevichaven studied law from 1884 and graduated with a doctorate in 1888. In 1889 van Schevichaven moved to Budapest to work in the Hungarian branch of the Dutch insurance company “De Algemeene” before returning to the head office in Amsterdam in 1893, where he was promoted to director in 1908. In 1894 he married Sophia Vreedenberg and in the following years became the father of a son and two daughters who died early. The marriage ended in divorce in 1914 and van Schevichaven moved in with Jeanne Kiës, who was twenty years his junior and who gave birth to a third daughter.
In 1894 van Schevichaven wrote the drama Een Hongaarsch duel , and in addition to his work at “De Algemeene” he published non-fiction books on the subject of “life insurance”. Since “De Algemeene” operated across Europe, the company got into trouble during the First World War . Financially stricken van Schevichaven began writing detective novels in 1917, for which he adopted the pseudonym Ivans (I. van S.). When "De Algemeene" went bankrupt in 1921, he made his secondary job his main job and wrote more than 40 crime novels in quick succession, in which the British master detective Geoffrey Gill, whose adventures are told by his friend Mijnheer Willy Hendricks, in various series Dutch amateur detective Baron Paul van Renesse and the detective Miss May Higgins perform.
Van Schevichaven also wrote four children's books.
Jakob van Schevichaven died of heart failure in The Hague in 1935 at the age of 68. His grave is in the Dutch cemetery Oud Eik en Duinen in The Hague .
Works (selection)
- 1917: De man uit Frankrijk
- → German The man from France . Gutenberg printing and publishing house, Berlin 1924
- → German The man from France . Heyne, Munich 1979
- 1917: Het spook van Vöröshegy
- → German The Spook of Vöröshegy . Gutenberg printing and publishing house, Berlin 1924
- 1919: De medeplichtigen
- → dt. The accomplices . Gutenberg printing and publishing house, Berlin 1924
- 1923: The lost kruis
- → dt. Miss Higgins on the trail of the murderer . Vertaal & Verlaat, Marburg 2009
literature
- Holger E. Wiedenstried: Ivans . In: Lexikon der Kriminalliteratur , CORIAN-VERLAG, Meitingen 1993-2005, 31. Erg.-Lfg. October 2000
- Kees de Leeuw (together with Charlotte Sienema and Erna Kok), Een nuchtere romanticus: leven en werk van Ivans, mr. Jakob van Schevichaven, 1866–1935 . Uitgeverij Aspect, Soesterberg, 2004. ISBN 90-5911-168-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob van Schevichaven in the catalog of the German National Library
- Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (Dutch, viewed October 21, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Holger E. Wiedenstried: Ivans . In: Lexikon der Kriminalliteratur , CORIAN-VERLAG, Meitingen 1993-2005, 31. Erg.-Lfg. October 2000, p. 1.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schevichaven, Jakob van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ivans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch novelist, crime novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sneek , Fryslân , the Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1935 |
| Place of death | The Hague , Zuid-Holland , Netherlands |