Max Rooses was a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 writer, literature critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum

Plantin-Moretus Museum

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium honouring the famous printers Christoffel Plantijn and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establishment, Plantin Press, at the Friday Market.- History :...

 at Antwerp.

Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège

University of Liège

The University of Liège , in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.-History:...

 to study philosophy

Philosophy

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 and literature

Literature

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. From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the Koninklijk Athenaeum (E: Royal Athenaeum) in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated in literature at the University of Liège. In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur

Namur (city)

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, and in 1866 in Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

. Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.

Source

• Max Rooses
• G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)
• L. C., Max Rooses, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 25, No. 137 (Aug., 1914), p. 318