Guido Gezelle

Guido Gezelle was born in Bruges on 1 May 1830, the son of a gardener, and was ordained priest in 1854. A professor at the minor seminary of Roeselare, he lost his poetry class in 1860 and was sent to Bruges, where he taught, then became curate and founded a weekly for families. Curate in Kortrijk from 1872 to 1889, he launched there a journal devoted to dialect words and assembled a vast lexical card index. A translator of Longfellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy in 1886, he died in Bruges on 27 November 1899.

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• PoetryTijdkransGuido Gezelle · 1893not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain