Paul Spaak
Paul Louis François Spaak (born July 5, 1871 in Ixelles / Elsene , Brussels , † May 8, 1936 ) was a Belgian lawyer and writer .
Life
Born and raised in an upscale bourgeois family as the son of the doctor Charles Spaak, he did his doctoral thesis in law at the Free University of Brussels in 1894 . On July 22, 1894 he married Marie Janson , daughter of Paul Janson and sister of the Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Émile Janson .
The couple had four children, including the future Belgian Prime Minister and NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak , the screenwriter Charles Spaak and the playwright Claude Spaak , who was married to the resistance fighter Suzanne Spaak . The actresses Agnès Spaak and Cathérine Spaak are granddaughters of the couple.
After his dissertation, he began studying literature and published his first work L'hérédité dans la littérature française antérieure au XIXe siècle in the Revue universitaire in 1894 . In 1907 he published a volume of poetry les Voyages vers mon pays , in which his impressions from his trips to London, Bayreuth , Grignan and Italy were processed. His first drama “Kaatje” was published in 1909. With Corneil de Thoran and Van Glabbeke he formed the direction of the “ Théâtre de la Monnaie ”. He translated several operas by Puccini into French.
Paul Spaak was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium from August 19, 1920 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ancestry.com names 1871 as the year of birth (as of October 22, 2009).
- ↑ The Royal Belgian Academy names 1876 as the year of birth.
- ↑ Biography at L'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, viewed October 22, 2009 (French)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spaak, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spaak, Paul Louis François (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ixelles / Elsene , Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1936 |
| Place of death | Brussels |