Karel van de Woestijne

Karel van de Woestijne was born in Ghent on 10 March 1878. He studied Germanic philology, discovered French symbolism there, and lived for several years at Laethem-Saint-Martin, a village on the banks of the Lys where a group of painters had formed, among them his brother Gustave. Brussels correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant from 1906, he wrote his columns there for twenty-three years. A civil servant at the Ministry of Arts, then professor of the history of Dutch literature at Ghent from 1920 to 1929, he died at Zwijnaarde on 24 August 1929.

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• PoetryWiekslag om de kimKarel van de Woestijne · 1928not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain