Lodewijk de Koninck
Illustration — Portrait of Lodewijk De Koninck in 1883. Lodewijk De Koninck (Hoogstraten, 30 October 1838 - Retie, 22 March 1924) was a Flemish writer. He studied at the school for teachers Lier and became a teacher in Antwerp.
Lodewijk de Koninck
De Koninck, Lodewijk (1838-1924) (artist) · https: collectionId=81531489730001488 lang=en sortItemsBy=date_a query=any,contains,GP060591 · Public domain
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- 1838 · Hoogstraten.
- Died
- 1924 · Retie.
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- Belgium
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- writer · poet
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Illustration — Portrait of Lodewijk De Koninck in 1883. Lodewijk De Koninck (Hoogstraten, 30 October 1838 - Retie, 22 March 1924) was a Flemish writer. He studied at the school for teachers Lier and became a teacher in Antwerp.
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Lodewijk de Koninck (1838–1924) was a Belgian poet and writer. Born in Hoogstraten, the poet died in Retie. Lodewijk de Koninck was a member of Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde.
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Later he became an inspector of the Catholic primary schools and a teacher at the school for teachers in Mechelen. He is best known for the epic Het menschdom verlost (first edition 1872) (E: Humanity saved), written in Alexandrine verse. He also wrote the libretto of the oratorio Fransciscus of Edgar Tinel. At the frontwall of his house in the Sint-Martinusstraat (nr. 8) in Retie, there was, in earlier days, a stone with the engraving Hier leefde en stierf dichter Lodewijk De Koninck 1924 (e: Here lived and died the writer Lodewijk De Koninck 1924).
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Title Lodewijk De Koninck 1838-1924. Lod. De Koninck. Hulde. Rethy 1929 Contributor De Koninck, Lodewijk (1838-1924) (artist) Baksteen, Gerard. (lithographer) Date 1929 Publisher
De Koninck, Lodewijk (1838-1924) (artist) · https: collectionId=81531489730001488 lang=en sortItemsBy=date_a query=any,contains,GP060591
Title Lodewijk de Koninck Contributor De Koninck, Lodewijk (1838-1924) (depicted) Schubert, Joseph (Belgian painter, lithographer, 1816-1885) (artist) Pichot, E. (artist) (printer) Date 1881 Publisher (date mentioned on print) Genre Portraits Extent voorstelling: 439 x 314 mm voorstelling met opschrift: 529 x 314 mm. Graphic Black-and-white; Language Dutch Typographical details lithograph(s) Addi
Schubert, Joseph (Belgian painter, lithographer, 1816-1885) (artist) · https: collectionId=81531994540001488 lang=en sortItemsBy=date_a query=any,contains,PB00579
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation writer. Institutional cataloguing adds that lodewijk de Koninck is recorded with the occupation poet. Institutional cataloguing adds that lodewijk de Koninck is recorded with the gender male. Born on 30 October 1838. Koninck died on 1 January 1924. Institutional cataloguing adds that lodewijk de Koninck is recorded as human.
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- Heibloemen (1869)
- Het menschdom verlost. Tafereelen (1874)
- Galerij van vaderlandsche tafereelen, opgehangen rond de wieg van P.P. Rubens (1878)
- Ode aan Vondel (1879)
- Verspreide gedichten (1880)
- Ode aan Kiliaan (1882)
- Het menschdom verlost (1883)
- Het menschdom verlost. Heldendicht in twaalf zangen (1883)
- Karelslied (1884)
- Hulde aan (...) Edgard Tinel (1885)
- Franciscus (1887)
- Kerk en Paus (1887)
- Diest en de H. Joannes Berchmans (1888)
- De wonderkerk van Hakendover (1896)
- Het Heilig Bloed van Hoogstraten (1902)
- Lofdicht over het Heilig Sacrament (1902)
- Lodewijk de Koninck
- Lodewijk de Koninck
- G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)
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