- Father of Aaf Brandt Corstius and Jelle Brandt Corstius.
- Has a grandson, Benjamin Groenteman (born 13 December 2009) from daughter Aaf.
- Has another daughter: Merel Brandt Corstius.
- Hugo Brandt Corstius wrote under over sixty different pseudonyms, allonyms and aliases. He claimed each of them to be a component of his character.
- In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics.
- He received in 1966 the 'Anne Frank Prize' for Ik sta op mijn hoofd, and in 1987 the P. C. Hooft Award for his entire works.
- He was employed at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.
- To the general public he is mostly known for his writing, in particular as a columnist for Vrij Nederland and de Volkskrant and as linguist and literary critic for Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, and NRC Handelsblad.
- He was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.
- He also wrote De Encyclopedie, a book parodying encyclopedias, containing about 300 pages numbered 1 through 40000 or thereabouts, with many puns, references to non-existent pages and other jokes.
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