Edmond De Goeyse

Dr. Edmond de Goeyse (1 October 1907 – 21 December 1998) was a

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

student leader during the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. He founded the pioneer student fraternity Bezem Lovania Brussel in 1925 and in 1927 he tried to reestablish the German fraternity

K.A.V. Lovania Leuven Katholische Academische Verbindung (K.A.V.) Lovania Leuven is a Catholic academic fraternity, founded in 1896 at the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Catholic University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium. It is a German Studentenverbindung ...

, affiliated with the

Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen The Union of Catholic German Student Fraternities (german: Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen or ''Cartellverband'' (CV)) is a German umbrella organization of Catholic male student fraternities (Studentenverbindung). ...

. In 1929, he united all Flemish student clubs in the Seniorenkonvent (SK), a subdivision of the

Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond (KVHV) or the Catholic Flemish Students' Union is a political student society which concerns Flemish nationalism and conservatism. It accepts male and female members and has chapters in Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp, ...

(KVHV) and wrote the Belgian version of the club

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, currently still in use by most students from Flanders. He died in

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, aged 91 in 1998. 1907 births 1998 deaths Belgian activists Fraternities and sororities in Belgium People from Antwerp {{Belgium-bio-stub