Julius De Geyter (

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, 25 April 1830 –

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, 18 February 1905) was a

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writer born in

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. He started his career as a teacher and journalist. In 1874, he became director of the Bank van Lening in Antwerp. Together with J.F.J. Heremans and E. Zetternam he founded the literary illustrated magazine "De Vlaamsche School", which existed from 1855 until 1862. Together with his friend

Julius Vuylsteke Julius Vuylsteke (Ghent, 10 November 1836 – Ghent, 16 January 1903) was a Belgian liberal politician and writer. He started his career as a lawyer, but later opened a bookshop. As a liberal Flemish politician, he founded the liberal associati ...

he was one of the most important political poets of his time and he was one of the leaders of the

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. Julius De Geyter is the author of many romantic and political poems, which were mostly

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and sometimes

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. He wrote also to the texts of several cantatas of

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, such as the ''Rubenscantate'' in 1877. In 1874, he also rewrote the text of Reinaert de Vos in

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. He died in

at age 74.

Bibliography

* Bloemen op een graf (1857) * Drii menschen van in de wieg tot in het graf (poetry, 1861) * Reinaart-de-Vos (re-rhyming, 1874) * Vlaanderens kunstroem (Rubenscantate, 1877) * De wereld in (1878) * De muze der geschiedenis (1880) * De Rhijn (

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, 1882) * Keizer Karel en het Rijk der Nederlanden (poetry, 1888) * Julius De Geyter's werken (1907-1909)

References

* Verschaeren, José, ''Geyter, Julius (eigenlijk Jan) de'', ''Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging''. Tielt: Lannoo, 1998. pp. 1306–1307.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Geyter, Julius De 1830 births 1905 deaths Flemish activists Flemish writers People from East Flanders

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