Author · Belgium
Emmanuel de Bom
Died in 1953
Emmanuel de Bom was born in Antwerp on 9 November 1868. A city employee from 1886, he moved in 1891 to the libraries and in 1911 became the city's chief librarian. In 1893, with Vermeylen, Buysse and Van Langendonck, he founded the journal Van Nu en Straks, and he made Ibsen known in Flanders. Antwerp correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant from 1904 to 1940, he was dismissed from the library in 1918 and reinstated in 1926. He died in Kalmthout on 14 April 1953.
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- NovelWrakkenEmmanuel de Bom · 1898not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain