Lodewijk De Koninck was a Flemish

Flanders

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 writer.

He studied at the school for teachers Lier

Lier, Belgium

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 and became a teacher in Antwerp. Later he became an inspector of the Catholic

Catholic

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 primary schools and a teacher at the school for teachers in Mechelen

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As a writer he wrote poems which reflected his strict catholic belief. He is best known for the epic Het menschdom verlost (first edition 1872) (E: Humanity saved), written in Alexandrine

Alexandrine

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 verse. He also wrote the libretto

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 of the oratorio

Oratorio

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 Fransciscus of Edgar Tinel

Edgar Tinel

Edgar Tinel was a Belgian composer and pianist.He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert , he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this...

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At the frontwall of his house in the Sint-Martinusstraat (nr. 8) in Retie, there was, in earlier days, a stone with the engraving Hier leefde en stierf dichter Lodewijk De Koninck 1924 (e: Here lived and died the writer Lodewijk De Koninck 1924).

Source

• Lodewijk de Koninck
• Lodewijk de Koninck
• G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)