Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Menno ter Braak (26 January 1902, Eibergen, Gelderland 14 May 1940) was a Dutch modernist author. Ter Braak was born in Eibergen and grew up in the town of Tiel where he proved to be an exemplary student of great intelligence. He went on to the University of Amsterdam where he majored in Dutch and History. As a student he was a regular contributor to the student magazine Propria Cures and involved himself in the study of film. Menno ter Braak was also the founder of the Filmliga, an organisation for the study of animated film. He completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the medieval emperor Otto III and consecutively worked as a teacher in a number of secondary schools.