Emanuel Hiel
Emanuel Hiel (born May 31, 1834 in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, today the city of Dendermonde , Belgium , † August 27, 1899 in Schaarbeek , Belgium) was a Flemish poet .
Life
Hiel was first the head of a cotton mill, then one after the other bookseller and customs officer, then held a post in the Ministry of the Interior and was professor of declamation at the Conservatory of Music and librarian at the Industrial Museum in Brussels.
An ardent fighter for freedom and progress, he should also be emphasized as a Flemish party leader and a leading writer. As a poet, he should be unsurpassed among the representatives of Flemish poetry of the time.
In addition to various collections of poetry, such as poems (Gent 1863) and Nieuwe liedekens (Gent 1861), the following are particularly important: the award-winning hymn De Wind (1869), the two extensive chants Lucifer and De Schelde , their performance (with music by Peter Benoit ) made the epoch, the Vrijheid hymn (composed by R. Hol), the oratorio Prometheus and Helga , borrowed from the Nordic legend ; also the poem Breidel en de Conning (1876), which sings about the battle of the Spurs at Courtrai in 1302, and the drama Jacoba van Beieren (1879).
In addition, he had performed with great success as a children's song writer with Liederen voor groote en kleine kinderen , which were composed for teaching purposes by Leo van Gheluwe ( Liedersolfege , 1875) and later (1879) in a second, very increased edition and mostly the melodies of German-Flemish and Flemish folk songs adapted.
He had already published a number of new, delicately felt and lively poems, Bloemeken, een liederkrans (Utrecht 1877) and the lyrical-dramatic poem Bloemardinne (1877). From 1862 to 1868, the patriotic Nederduitsch Maandschrift also appeared under Hiel's direction in Brussels , which later assumed the title Nederduitsch Tijdschrift .
His festival songs Belgenland and Eer Belgenland , composed in 1880 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence, from a later period, are among the poet's most powerful lyrical outgrowths. A collection of Hiel's poems appeared in three volumes ( Volledige Dichtwerken , Rousselaere 1885).
The International Freemason Lexicon gives him without further information as a Freemason .
literature
- Herman Baccaert: Emanuel Hiel, zijn leven en zijn werk. Antwerp: Van Looy, 1909.
- Emiel Victor Willekens: Emanuel Hiel: Dichter en flamingant tussen Dender en Zenne, 1834-1899 . Brussels: Willemsfonds, 1984.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . 5th edition 2006, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , p. 393
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiel, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dendermonde |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1899 |
| Place of death | Schaarbeek |