Herman Teirlinck

Herman Teirlinck was born in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on 24 February 1879, the son of a folklorist and a schoolteacher. He began medicine in Brussels, then Germanic philology in Ghent, and completed neither. A civil servant of the city of Brussels from 1902, he then ran, until 1926, a furniture factory that took him to the Congo. A supporter of a theatre opposed to realism, he founded in 1946 in Antwerp the drama school that today bears his name. He died in Beersel on 4 February 1967.

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• Short storiesDe wonderbare wereldHerman Teirlinck · 1902not translated into EnglishLiterature