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Also known as Hendryck Conscience

Belgian author (1812-1883)

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Hendrik Conscience was a Belgian writer, poet, politician, and military personnel who served as a soldier. Born in Antwerp in 1812, he died in Brussels, Ixelles, in 1883. He is buried at Schoonselhof. Conscience wrote in Dutch, his native language, and also spoke French. His literary work falls within the Romanticism movement and the genre of historical prose literature.

His notable work includes *De Leeuw van Vlaenderen of de Slag der Gulden Sporen*. Other listed works include *De schat van Felix Roobeek*, *The village innkeeper*, *Batavia*, *Le mal du siècle*, and *孝友鏡*. His archives are held at the Letterenhuis. He resided at the Wiertz Museum in Schilde.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1812
Died
1883
Works
101

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Writing

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
1993

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
62

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Key facts

Born
( 1812-12-03 ) 3 December 1812, Antwerp , French Empire, (modern Belgium )
Died
10 August 1883 (1883-08-10) (aged 70), Ixelles , Brussels, Belgium
Resting place
Schoonselhof cemetery , Antwerp
Occupation
Soldier, revolutionary, writer, poet, novelist
Literary movement
Romanticism
Notable works
The Lion of Flanders

via Wikipedia infobox

Described at

Biografia de Hendryck Conscience

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Hendrik Conscience, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.

Over the course of his career, he published over 100 novels and novellas and achieved considerable popularity. After his death, with the decline of romanticism, his works became less fashionable but are still considered as classics of Flemish literature.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hendrik Conscience” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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