Theodoor van Rijswijck

Theodoor van Rijswijck was born in Antwerp in July 1811, the eldest of a large family; his father, a weaver turned schoolteacher, introduced him to Vondel. An apprentice to a sculptor and then to a decorative painter, and an assistant schoolmaster, he served as a volunteer in the Belgian army until 1835, then remained a copyist at the Antwerp pawnbroker's office. That same year he revived, with Michiel van der Voort, the chamber of rhetoric De Olijftak, which Hendrik Conscience joined, and he contributed to the first Flemish newspapers. He died in Antwerp on 7 May 1849.

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• PoetryVolksliedjesTheodoor van Rijswijck · 1846not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain