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Piet Hein

Piet Hein

Danish polymath
Piet Hein was a Danish polymath, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of... Wikipedia
Born: December 16, 1905, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: April 17, 1996 (age 90 years), Middelfart, Denmark
Spouse: Gerd Ericsson (m. 1955–1968), Anne Cathrine Krøyer Pedersen (m. 1947–1953), and Gunver Holck (m. 1937)
Known for: Puzzles, poems
Children: Jotun Hein