Paul Hamelius or Hamélius (1868–1922) was a
Belgian
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philologist
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who produced the two-volume
Early English Text Society
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edition of
the Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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By aid of translations into many other languages, the ...
(1919, 1923).
Life
Hamelius was born on 26 April 1868 in
Ypres
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Belgium
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, where his father, originally from
Luxembourg
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, was stationed as a military doctor. Between the ages of 3 and 12 he grew up in
Metz
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, which was then in the
German Empire, and received his primary education in German. After returning to Belgium he trained as a teacher, and taught at secondary schools (''athénées'') in Tournai, Charleroi and Ixelles. He received a doctorate in
Germanic philology
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The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary tex ...
from the
University of Liège
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in 1898.
In 1904 he became professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Liège, giving his inaugural lecture on 11 November. Although growing up speaking
Luxembourgish
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at home, he had become fully fluent in English, French, and German. In 1914 he produced a personal account of the
Battle of Liège
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in English. During the war he worked from London for the intelligence and propaganda services of the
Belgian government in exile
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.
His article "La littérature des proscrits en Angleterre" (on two pieces of 14th-century outlaw literature) appeared in the first issue of the flagship ''
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire''. He died in Liège on 23 February 1922.
Works
As author
* ''Histoire politique et littéraire du mouvement flamand'' (1894)
* ''Die Kritik in der englischen Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts'' (1897) – doctoral dissertation
* ''The Siege of Liège, a Personal Narrative, with a Plan of the Forts'' (1914)
* with
Herman Vander Linden
Herman Vander Linden (1868–1956) was a Belgian historian who was a professor at the University of Liège.
Life
Vander Linden was born in Leuven on 27 April 1868 and was educated in the state secondary school there. He graduated doctor of philos ...
, ''Anglo-Belgian Relations, Past and Present'' (1918)
* ''Introduction à la littérature française et flamande de Belgique'' (1921)
Review by Alphonse Bayot
in ''Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire'' 1:2 (1922), pp. 351-360.
As editor
* ''Thomas Southern's "Loyal Brother": A Play on the Popish Plot'' (1911)
* ''Mandeville's Travels'' (1919, 1923)
References
External links
*
The Siege of Liège
' at Internet Archive.
*
Mandeville's Travels
', a digitization of Hamelius's edition by the University of Michigan
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1868 births
1922 deaths
Philologists
People from Ypres
Academic staff of the University of Liège