Lodewijk de Koninck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lodewijk de Koninck

Belgian writer

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1838

Place of Birth: Hoogstraten, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1924

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 the Catholic primary schools and a teacher at the school for teachers in Mechelen. 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 the libretto of the oratorio Fransciscus of Edgar 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).