Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven

Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven was born in Antwerp on 10 November 1818, the son of a commercial broker. A pupil at the city's athenaeum with Domien Sleeckx, he left in 1836 to study medicine in Bologna, where the agitation of the Risorgimento turned this fervent Catholic into a liberal. Back in Antwerp, he abandoned his studies for his father's counting-house, contributed to several periodicals and edited one from the end of the 1840s. His quarrel with Conscience, which began in 1846, led to his exclusion from a Flemish society. An employee of the city administration, he died in Antwerp on 1 August 1857.

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• NovelDe koopmansklerkPieter Frans van Kerckhoven · 1843not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain