biography
| name: |
Conscience, Hendrik
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–83)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Antwerp, N Belgium. From 1866 he was director of the Wiertz Museum. His Phantazy (1837), a collection of tales, and his most popular romance, De leeuw van Vlaanderen (1838, The Lion of Flanders), earned him a place as ‘the father of the Flemish novel’. His series of pictures of Flemish life carried his name over Europe. |
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