
Family tree of Emile VERHAEREN
Poet
Born Emile Adolphe Gustave VERHAEREN
Belgian poet and art critic
Born on May 21, 1855 in Sint-Amands, Antwerpen , Belgium
Died on October 27, 1916 in Rouen , France
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Émile Verhaeren was born into a middle-class family in Sint-Amands, a rural commune in Belgium's Province of Antwerp. In addition to the local Dutch dialect, he adopted French as his language of culture, as was common for Belgian elites at the time.
... He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.
Émile Verhaeren was born into a middle-class family in Sint-Amands, a rural commune in Belgium's Province of Antwerp. In addition to the local Dutch dialect, he adopted French as his language of culture, as was common for Belgian elites at the time.
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