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August Vermeylen

Died in 1945

August Vermeylen was born in Brussels on 12 May 1872. A history student at the Free University of Brussels, he founded in 1893, with Emmanuel de Bom, Cyriel Buysse and Prosper van Langendonck, the journal Van Nu en Straks. Professor of art history in Brussels from 1901 to 1923, then in Ghent, he was in 1930 the first rector of the University of Ghent, which had become Dutch-speaking. A socialist senator from 1921, he published a history of European sculpture and painting in three volumes, and died in Uccle on 10 January 1945.

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