- Lodewijk de Koninck
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 . Later he became an inspector of theCatholic primary schools and a teacher at the school for teachers inMechelen .As a writer he wrote poems which reflected his strict catholic belief. He is best known for the epic "Het menschdom verlost" (first edition 1872) (E: Humanity saved), written in
Alexandrine verse. He also wrote thelibretto of theoratorio "Fransciscus" ofEdgar 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).
Bibliography
* 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)ee also
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Flemish literature ource
* [http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=koni005 Lodewijk de Koninck]
* [http://users.pandora.be/louis.jacobs/De_Koninck.html Lodewijk de Koninck]
* G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985)
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