Lodewijk De Koninck (

Hoogstraten Hoogstraten () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium). Hoogstraten (o ...

, 30 October 1838 -

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, 22 March 1924) was a

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writer. He studied at the school for teachers Lier and became a teacher in

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. Later he became an inspector of the

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primary schools and a teacher at the school for teachers in

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. As a writer he wrote poems which reflected his strict catholic belief. He is best known for the epic ''Het menschdom verlost'' (first edition 1872) (E: Humanity saved), written in

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verse. He also wrote the

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of the

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''Fransciscus'' of

Edgar Tinel Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (27 March 185428 October 1912) was a Belgian composer and pianist. He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Lou ...

. At the frontwall of his house in the ''Sint-Martinusstraat'' (nr. 8) in Retie, there was, in earlier days, a stone with the engraving ''Hier leefde en stierf dichter Lodewijk De Koninck 1924'' (e: Here lived and died the writer Lodewijk De Koninck 1924).

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* Heibloemen (1869) * Het menschdom verlost. Tafereelen (1874) * Galerij van vaderlandsche tafereelen, opgehangen rond de wieg van P.P. Rubens (1878) * Ode aan Vondel (1879) * Verspreide gedichten (1880) * Ode aan Kiliaan (1882) * Het menschdom verlost (1883) * Het menschdom verlost. Heldendicht in twaalf zangen (1883) * Karelslied (1884) * Hulde aan (...) Edgard Tinel (1885) * Franciscus (1887) * Kerk en Paus (1887) * Diest en de H. Joannes Berchmans (1888) * De wonderkerk van Hakendover (1896) * Het Heilig Bloed van Hoogstraten (1902) * Lofdicht over het Heilig Sacrament (1902)

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Lodewijk de Koninck

* G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985) 1838 births 1924 deaths Flemish writers Belgian Roman Catholics Roman Catholic writers People from Hoogstraten {{Belgium-writer-stub

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