Piet Chielens (born 1956) a Belgian writer, translator and curator. He is coordinator of the

In Flanders Fields Museum The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) on the market square in the city centre. The building was largely dest ...

Ypres Ypres ( , ; nl, Ieper ; vls, Yper; german: Ypern ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality co ...

(Ieper) in Belgium. He is also artistic director of ''Vredesconcerten Passendale'' ('' Passchendaele Peace Concerts'')."Coope, Boyes & Simpson: harmonic convergence" - Goliath
/ref> Chielens was born in

Reningelst Reningelst is a rural village in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a "deelgemeente" of the municipality Poperinge. The village has about 1405 inhabitants. The deelgemeente of De Klijte used to be a part of Reningelst (then independent, n ...

. He is co-author, with

Julian Putkowski Julian Putkowski (born 1947) is a British university teacher, military historian, researcher, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I. Putkowski graduated from the University of Essex in 1976. He has si ...

, of ''Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders''.

Bibliography

* Putkowski, Julian & Chielens, Piet; ''Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders'', (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2000)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chielens, Piet 1956 births Living people People from Poperinge Historians of World War I Military discipline and World War I 20th-century Belgian historians