Deyssel, Lodewijk van, pseud. of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm, 1864-1952, Dutch novelist, critic, and essayist. He was editor of De Nieuwe Gids [the new guide], the monthly organ of the progressive literary movement, the "Eighters." His two novels, De kleine Republiek [little republic] (1886) and Een Liefde [love story] (1887), shocked Dutch society with their explicit naturalism. Deyssel subsequently shifted to mysticism, documenting his evolution in Van Zola tot Maeterlinck [from Zola to Maeterlinck] (1895).

Lodewijk is the Dutch name for Louis. In specific it may refer to:

In literature:

• Lodewijk van Deyssel, late 19th century Dutch literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers
• Martin Lodewijk, Dutch comics writer and cartoonist
• Lodewijk Elzevir, 16th century printer and publisher of books and bibles
• Lodewijk de Koninck, Flemish writer
• Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, Flemish writer
• Lodewijk Hartog van Banda, Dutch comic strip writer

In other fields:

• Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Dutch classical scholar
• Lodewijk van den Berg, chemical engineer
• Lodewijk Parisius, Dutch/Surinamese tenor saxophonist
• Jan-Lodewijk de Vries, Dutch water polo player
• Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, 16th century Dutch scholar from Leeuwarden
• Lodewijk De Raet, Flemish politician
• Lodewijk Napoleon, Dutch form of Louis I Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland
• Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (better known as Lou Bandy), Dutch singer and cabaret conferencier
• Lodewijk van Gruuthuse (in English, known as Lewis de Bruges), Flemish knight and nobleman

See also

• Lodewyk