Maurits Sabbe, born Maurice Charles Marie Guillaume Sabbe (

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...

, 9 February 1873 –

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, 12 February 1938), 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; ...

man of letters and educator who became curator of the

Plantin-Moretus Museum The Plantin-Moretus Museum ( nl, Plantin-Moretusmuseum) is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th-century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establ ...

in Antwerp.

Life

He was a son of

Julius Sabbe Julius Ludovicus Maria Sabbe (14 February 1846 in Ghent – 3 July 1910 in Bruges) was a Flemish publisher and an active member of the Flemish movement. From 24 September 1869 on, he taught Dutch at the Koninklijk Atheneum (E: Royal Atheneum) ...

and the eldest of seven children. He grew up in Bruges, going to school there, and studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the

University of Ghent Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...

, obtaining a doctorate in 1896 with a thesis on

Jan Luyken Johannes or Jan Luyken (April 16, 1649 – April 5, 1712) was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraving, engraver.Biographie Nationale de Belgique The ''Biographie nationale de Belgique'' ( French; "National Biography of Belgium") is a biographical dictionary of Belgium. It was published by the Royal Academy of Belgium in 44 volumes between 1866 and 1986. A continuation series, entitled the ' ...

''
vol. 41
(Brussels, 1979), 704–709 He became a secondary school teacher, working at a number of different establishments. In 1899 he married Gabriëlla De Smet. From 1903 to 1919 he taught at the Koninklijk Atheneum in Mechelen, also providing Dutch classes at the

Royal Conservatoire Antwerp The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen) is a Belgian conservatory of music, dance and drama in Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1898 as the Royal Flemish Conservatoire by Peter Benoit. The legislation on u ...

from 1907. In 1919 he was appointed curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum. During this period he published on the

Plantin Press The Plantin Press at Antwerp was one of the focal centers of the fine printed book in the 16th century. History Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–1589) of Touraine was trained as a bookbinder. He fled from Paris where at least one printer had rece ...

, the

Verdussen family Verdussen was a dynasty of printers in Antwerp, starting with Hieronymus Verdussen I in the late sixteenth century, and ending around 1800. Many other printers in Antwerp were also related to the Verdussens through marriage. They specialized in reli ...

, and the poetry and pamphleteering of the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1923 to 1937 he was professor of Dutch literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in succession to

August Vermeylen August Vermeylen (12 May 1872, in Brussels – 10 January 1945, in Uccle) was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the literary journal ''Van Nu en Straks'' (''Of Today and Tomorrow''). He studied history at the Free Univers ...

. He died in Antwerp on 12 February 1938 and was buried at the

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in Antwerp. A statue of him, unveiled in 1950, stands at the ''Sashuis'' near the ''Minnewater'' in Bruges.

Honours

* 1920 : Officer in the Order of the Crown. RD 12 January 1920.

Writings

* Peter Benoit (1892) * Aan 't Minnewater : drie schetsen uit het Brugse leven (1893) * Een mei van vroomheid (1903) * Vlaamsche mensen (1907) * De filosofoof van 't sashuis (1907) * Het proza in de Vlaamse letterkunde (1909) * Een Schutsgeest (1909) * De nood der Bariseeles (1912) * Bietje (1913) * Caritate (1914) * In t gedrang. Vertellingen uit den oorlog (1915) * De toneelles (1917) * t Pastorke van Schaerdycke (1919) * t Kwartet der Jacobijnen (1920) * Wat Oud-Vlaanderen zong (1920) * Letterkundige verscheidenheden (1928) * De muziek in Vlaanderen (1928) * Brabant in 't verweer: bijdrage tot de studie der Zuid-Nederlandse strijdliteratuur in de eerste helft der 17e eeuw (1933) * Peilingen (1935) * De meesters van de gulden passer: Christoffel Plantin, aartsdrukker van Philips II, en zijn opvolgers, de Moretussen (1937) * De vorstinnen van Brugge (naar de vertellingen van M. Sabbe, door Maurits Balfoort (1973) * Avondbede * Bernardus en de cisterciënzerfamilie in België * Briefwisseling van de gebroeders Verdussen * De minderbroeders en de oude Leuvense universiteit * De oorlogstribulatiën van Meneer Van Poppel * De oude harpspeelster * De Plantijnsche werkstede * Drie liederen in volkstrant * Eeuwzang ter gelegenheid van de honderste verjaring van België's onafhankelijkheid * Handschriften en vroegdrukken * Het kerkske van te lande * Het leven en de werken van Michiel de Swaen * Het lied van onze klokken * Hoe Stientje uit den Anker gevrijd werd * Hooggetij: vaderlandsche kindercantate voor koren en symfonisch orkest * Huldebetoon van Mr. Louis Franck * Ik heb U gezien * In de kriekentijd * (Poëzie van) Julius en Maurits Sabbe * Lenteliedje * Melsens kruis * Mozaiek: verspreide opstellen * Oud Antwerpen : kerken en kloosters * Oud België * Peeter Heyns en de nimfen * Philemons dans om de bruid * Pluk de dag * Stichtelyck ende vermakelyck proces tussen dry edellieden * 't Is in U, zoetste lief * Uit den taalstrijd in Zuid-Nederland tussen 1815–1830 * Van den mulder en de mulderin * Zonnestralen

References

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