Henri Pierre Leonard Wiessing (Vlissingen, June 27, 1878 - Amsterdam, March 16, 1961), known in his time as H.P.L. Wiessing, was a Dutch journalist. Henri Wiessing studied law at the University of Amsterdam and received his doctorate there in 1904. During his studies he became acquainted with socialist thought. From 1905-1907 he was a correspondent for the Algemeen Handelsblad. In 1907 he returned to Amsterdam and became editor-in-chief of the weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. After a conflict, he left there and in 1915 started the Nieuwe Groene Amsterdammer, which he headed until the magazine ceased to exist at the end of 1920. After a long period of poverty, Wiessing became tourism editor of the Haagsche Post in 1939. Because he had gone to Paris for work a few days before the German invasion, he was unable to return to the Netherlands. In June he ended up in Bordeaux, where he met his old friend Hendrik Marsman and his wife Rien Marsman-Barendregt. The three of them were to sail to England on a ship, but by a coincidence Wiessing could not join them. The ship, the Dutch steam freighter Berenice, sank on June 21, possibly torpedoed by a submarine. Rien Marsman survived as the only passenger. Wiessing had simultaneously secured passage on another ship, the Niger Stream, and thus arrived in London safely. During the war years he stayed in England and was associated with the London weekly Vrij Nederland. After returning to the Netherlands, he was editor-in-chief of the Vrije Katheder, a magazine for artists and intellectuals, from 1946 to 1950. Wiessing spent his last years writing his biography Bewegend portret. Life Memories, which appeared in 1960. Henri Wiessing died a year later as the result of a car accident.