Jan van Beers

Jan van Beers was born in Antwerp on 22 February 1821 into a family of distillers. A pupil at the minor seminary of Mechelen, he first wrote in French; the verse of Tollens and the great Flemish national novel led him to switch to Dutch. A teacher in Mechelen, sub-librarian in Antwerp, professor at the teacher-training college in Lier and then at the Antwerp athénée, he composed grammar textbooks. A Liberal town councillor from 1875, he served as alderman for education. He died in Antwerp on 14 November 1888.

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• PoetryGevoel en levenJan van Beers · 1869not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain