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3 unusual facts about Hendrik Conscience


Hendrik Conscience

But it was with the patronage of Leopold I that Conscience published his second book, Fantasy, in the same year 1837.

Ignaz Kuranda

With the assistance of Minister Nothomb and the author Hendrik Conscience he founded in 1841 the periodical Die Grenzboten; but on account of the obstacles which the Prussian government placed in the way of its circulation in Germany, Kuranda removed the headquarters of the paper to Leipzig, where it soon became an important factor in Austrian politics.

Jan van Beers

Van Beers as a teacher was early in the field, with Hendrik Conscience, Willems and others, when the Flemish movement began.


De Vlaamse Leeuw

De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders, synonymous title, but also the nickname of its hero, the medieval Count Robert III of Flanders and the title of the Flemish national epic by Hendrik Conscience).

Nicholas Trübner

His own works include, besides the catalogues and bibliographies already mentioned, translations from Flemish of Hendrik Conscience's Sketches of Flemish Life, 1846, from German of part of Brunnhofer's Life of Giordano Bruno, Scheffel's Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, and Eckstein's Eternal Laws of Morality; and a memoir of Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian consul in London, whose daughter he married.


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