Reimond Stijns (10 May 1850, in
Mullem
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– 12 December 1905, in
Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
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) was a
Belgian
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writer.
He started his professional career as a teacher in 1870, first in Bevere (
Oudenaarde
Oudenaarde (; french: Audenarde ; in English sometimes ''Oudenarde'') is a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Oudenaarde proper and the towns of Bevere, Edelare, Eine, Ename, Heu ...
), and afterwards back in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. In 1883, he became study master, later teacher Dutch at the ''Koninklijk athenaeum'' (E:Royal athenaeum) in
Brussels
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. Initially as a writer, he worked together with his brother-in-law
Isidoor Teirlinck
Isidoor Teirlinck (Zegelsem, 2 January 1851 - Forest, Brussels, 27 June 1934) was a Belgian writer. He is best known for his work on folklore.
Isidoor Teirlinck went to school in Lier. He married with Oda van Nieuwenhove and he was the father of ...
, who was also a teacher in Brussels. Together they published ''Arm Vlaanderen'' (E: Poor Flanders) in 1884, a
political novel
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on the educational struggle between Belgian
Catholics
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and
liberals. As from 1886 he went his own way, and produced his best work, of which ''Hard labeur'' (1904) is best known. Reimond Stijns was the first
naturalistic writer of Flanders, but his work was also still influenced by
romanticism
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.
Bibliography
* Arm Vlaanderen (1884)
* Schetsen en verhalen (1886)
* Broodnijd. Schetsen en verhalen II (1887)
* Ruwe liefde (1887)
* In de ton (1891)
* Klein leven (1893)
* Driften (1896)
* Hard labeur (1904)
See also
*
Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After Bel ...
External links
Reimond StijnsReimond Stijns*
1850 births
1905 deaths
People from Oudenaarde
Flemish writers
Flemish activists
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