Background
He was born Pieter Nicolaas van Eijk and changed his name to van Eyck around 1907.
philosopher university professor writer poet
He was born Pieter Nicolaas van Eijk and changed his name to van Eyck around 1907.
Van Eyck attended Gymnasium Haganum before studying law.
After Albert Verwey resigned from the university of Leiden in 1935, van Eyck took on the professorship for Dutch language and literature there, a position which he held until his death.
He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Dutch newspaper National Research Council in Rome and London, but also a poet, critic, essayist and philosopher from the Netherlands. They moved to Great Britain in 1919. They were the parents of: Robert Floris van Eyck or van Eijk, a London poet, artist and art restorer Aldo van Eyck or van Eijk, architect.