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Jean Stecher

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Lithograph portrait (1872)

Auguste Jean Stecher (1820–1909) was a Belgian literary historian and literary critic, sometimes writing under the pen name Lieven Everwyn, who was a professor at Ghent University and University of Liège and a contributor to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique. His magnum opus was a 4-volume edition of the works of Jean Lemaire de Belges.

Life

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Stecher was born in Ghent on 11 October 1820. His parents kept a hotel in the city.[1] He studied at the state secondary school and the state university there, obtaining a doctorate in 1841.[1] He began teaching at the University of Ghent, in 1850 transferring to the University of Liège.

He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 8 May 1876 and a full member on 9 May 1881.[2]

Stecher died in Liège on 3 September 1909.

Works

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As author
  • (as Lieven Everwyn), Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde (Ghent, 1845)[3]
  • (as Lieven Everwyn), De eerste Fransche Revolutie (Ghent, 1848)[4]
  • Flamands et Wallons (Liège, 1859)[5]
  • Étude sur les proverbes (Liège, 1861)[6]
  • Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)
As editor
  • Oeuvres de Jean Lemaire de Belges (4 vols., Leuven, 1882-1891)
As translator
Articles

References

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  1. ^ a b Walter Gobbers, "Stecher (Jean Auguste)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 34 (Brussels, 1967), 726-734.
  2. ^ "Auguste Jean Stecher". academieroyale.be.
  3. ^ Korte levensschets on Google Books.
  4. ^ De eerste Fransche Revolutie on Google Books.
  5. ^ Flamands et Wallons on Google Books.
  6. ^ Étude sur les proverbes on Google Books.