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Kumbel (Hein Piet)
(1905–1996)

Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell." He was born in... More...

Denmark, 2007, Piet Hein