Carolus Petrus Eduardus Maria "Karel" van de Woestijne (;

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

, 10 March 1878 –

Zwijnaarde Zwijnaarde () is a village in the municipality of Ghent, Belgium. It is known for its fair and its ''Zwijntjes'' beer. A cluster of biotech companies is located at the Zwijnaarde science park, with biotech companies such as Innogenetics, and DevGe ...

, 24 August 1929) was a

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writer and brother of the painter

Gustave van de Woestijne Gustave Van de Woestijne (; 2 August 1881 – 21 April 1947) was a Belgian expressionist painter. He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks ...

. He went to highschool at the ''Koninklijk Athenaeum'' (E:Royal Athenaeum) at the Ottogracht in Ghent. He also studied Germanic philology 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 ...

, where he came into contact with

French symbolism Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

. He lived at

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from April 1900 up to January 1904, and from April 1905 up to November 1906. Here he wrote ''Laetemsche brieven over de lente'', for his friend

Adolf Herckenrath Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...

(1901). In 1907 he moved to Brussels, and in 1915 he moved to Pamel, where he wrote ''De leemen torens'' together with

Herman Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879 – Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967) was a Belgian writer. He was the fifth child and only son of Isidoor Teirlinck and Oda van Nieuwenhove, who were both teachers in Brussels. As a ...

. From 1906 he was correspondent of the

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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. Between 1920 and 1929 he taught history of Dutch literature at the University of Ghent. He was editor of successively the illustrated magazines of

Van Nu en Straks ''Van Nu en Straks'' (; ''Of Now and Later'' or ''Today and Tomorrow'') was a Flemish literary and cultural magazine that was founded in 1893 by August Vermeylen. With a cover designed by Henry van de Velde, this magazine served as a vehicle for a ...

(second range, 1896-1901) and ''Vlaanderen'' (1903-1907). Of the illustrated magazine Vlaanderen he became secretary of the redaction in 1906. From 1925 until his death in 1929, he lived in Zwijnaarde, nearby Ghent. He was buried in the Cemetery of Campo Santo.

Honours

* 1923 : Officer in the Order of the Crown. RD 21.7.1923

Bibliography

* Laethemse brieven over de lente (1901) * Het Vaderhuis (1903) * De boomgaard der vogelen en der vruchten (1905) * Janus met het dubbele voorhoofd (1908) * De gulden schaduw (1910) * Afwijkingen (1910) * Kunst en geest in Vlaanderen (1911) * Interludiën I (1912) * Interludiën II (1914) * De boer die sterft (1918) (translated by Paul Vincent as ''The Dying Peasant'', 2018, ) * Goddelijke verbeeldingen (1918) * De bestendige aanwezigheid (1918) * De modderen man (1920) * Substrata (1924) * Zon in de rug (1924) * Beginselen der chemie (1925) * God aan zee (1926) * Het menschelijk brood (1923) * Christophorus (1926) * Het zatte hart (1926) * Epibasis (1927-1929) * De leemen torens (1928) * De schroeflijn (1928) * Het bergmeer (1928) * De nieuwe Esopet (1932) * Over schrijvers en boeken (1933) * Proza (omvattend : De boer die sterft, Christophorus, De heilige van het getal) (1933) * Verzameld werk (1928-1933) * Een bundeltje lyrische gedichten (1936 en 1950) * Romeo of De minnaar der liefde (1941) * Proza (omvattend : De boer die sterft, Goddelijke verbeeldingen I) (1942) * Nagelaten gedichten (1943) * Verhalen (1944) * Verzameld werk (8 delen, 1948-1950) * Verzamelde gedichten (1953) * Keur uit het werk van Karel Van de Woestijne (1953) * Journalistiek. Brieven aan de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant * Verzamelde gedichten (1978) * Brieven aan Lode Outrop (1985)

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