Max Waller
Illustration — Portrait of Max Waller 1889 Léopold Nicolas Maurice Édouard Warlomont (24 February 1860, Brussels - 6 March 1889, Saint-Gilles), was a Belgian poet, critic, novelist, and playwright, best known under his pen name, Max Waller. He was one of the founders of the literary review La Jeune Belgique in 1881. At the beginning of his career he published under several noms de plumes: Olivier, Peter Corneille, Jacques (in the literary journal La Nation), Rimaille and Siebel, before adopting the pseudonym Max Waller.
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Max Waller
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- Léopold-Nicolas-Maurice-Édouard Warlomont.
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- 1860. · Brussels.
- Died
- 1889. · Saint-Gilles.
- Nationality
- Belgium.
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- writer, poet and literary critic.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Portrait of Max Waller 1889 Léopold Nicolas Maurice Édouard Warlomont (24 February 1860, Brussels - 6 March 1889, Saint-Gilles), was a Belgian poet, critic, novelist, and playwright, best known under his pen name, Max Waller. He was one of the founders of the literary review La Jeune Belgique in 1881. At the beginning of his career he published under several noms de plumes: Olivier, Peter Corneille, Jacques (in the literary journal La Nation), Rimaille and Siebel, before adopting the pseudonym Max Waller.
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Recorded at birth as Léopold-Nicolas-Maurice-Édouard Warlomont. Also worked under the name Max Waller, Peter Corneille and Rimaille. Born at Brussels in 1860, died in Saint-Gilles in 1889.
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- 1.Bruxelles, acte de naissance n° 961 du 26 février 1860. Naissance le 24 février 1860 à deux heures de relevée, rue des Épingles, section 6, n° 49, de Léopold Nicolas Maurice Edouard, fils de Jean Conrad Évariste Narcisse Warlomont, docteur en médecine, et de Delphine Ernestine Adèle Darche, conjoints, domiciliés même maison, sur déclaration du père âgé de 42 ans.
- 2.G. Leboucq, Warlomont Evariste, Biographie Nationale, Volume 27, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 1938, col. 85 et 86, lire en ligne : https://academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2078.pdf.
- 3.Son père, Valentin Darches - ou D'Arches de Tromcourt - né en 1780 à Couvin au château de Tromcourt, et mort en 1854 à Hautmont, fut maître de forges et de la verrerie Darche et conseiller général du Nord. Voyez Charles Dens, Un baptême à Couvin en 1782, dans les Annales de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, Tome XXXII.
- 4.Emile Van Balberghe et Nadine Fettweis, Warlomont Charles, Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, volume 5, 1999, pages 377 et suivantes, sous le lien : https://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFNouvelleBiographieNational2107.pdf#page=385 et voyez aussi L. Guébels, Warlomont (Charles - Léon - Wilhelm), Biographie coloniale belge, T.I, 1948, col. 962 à 965, sous le lien : https://www.kaowarsom.be/documents/bbom/Tome_I/Warlomont.Charles_Leon_Wilhelm.pdf.
- 5.Warlomont (Charles), Correspondance d'Afrique, ouvrage posthume avec une préface de Max Waller, in-12°, 143 pages, Bruxelles, Monnom, 1888.
- 6.Albert Vander Linden, Waller (Max), Biographie Nationale, Volume 27, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 1938, col. 69 et suivantes, lire en ligne : https://academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2078.pdf.
- 7.Encyclopædia Britannica. Max Waller. Page consultée le 30 juin 2006.
- 8.Max Waller, Critique, romancier, nouvelliste, auteur dramatique…
- 9.Nécrologie. Journal de Bruxelles. 10 mars 1889.
- 10.Nécrologie. Le Soir. 8 mars 1889.
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- Paul André, Max Waller et la Jeune Belgique, Bruxelles, Le Thyrse/Librairie Vanderlinden, 1905. 156 pp.
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