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Sign: Rotterdam - A statue in memory of Hendrik Tollens


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Kievitslaan 25, 3016 CG Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Tollens Monument
1860
Johan Theodore Stracké,
Duitsland 1870-1891
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The statue was photographed that day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

On the basis of the sculpture is the inscription in which the years in which Tollens lived and the place of his birth and death:
GEB ROTTERDAM
24 SEPTEMBER 1780
OVERL RIJSWIJK
31 OCTOBER 1856

Hendrik Tollens was a Dutch poet, whose best-known work is the Dutch national anthem. The statue dedicated to Tollens also because he was a resident of Rotterdam is one of the oldest sculptures in Rotterdam that was erected as early as 1860.

The sculpture was created by the German sculptor Jean Theodore Stracké

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Note the mistake in the year of birth of the sculptor , written 1870 and should be 1817.

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