Pol de Mont

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Pol de Mont (1896)

Karel Maria Polydoor "Pol" de Mont (born April 15, 1857 in Wambeek near Brussels , †  June 29, 1931 in Berlin ) was a Flemish poet.

Pol de Mont studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven . He then worked as a teacher at the Koninklijk Atheneum in Antwerp . He became co-editor of De Vlaamse Gids magazine . In 1904 de Mont was appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp . In 1919 he had to resign from this post because he was one of the Flemish activists during the First World War . Until 1923 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper De Schelde .

Pol de Mont was married to Maria Joanna Jozefine van der Hulst.

Works

  • Klimoprankskes (1875)
  • Rijzende sterren (1879)
  • Poems (1880)
  • Lentesotternijen (1881)
  • Idylls (1882)
  • Loreley (1882)
  • Hendrik Conscience . Zijn leven en werken (1883)
  • Idylls and other poems (1884)
  • Fladderende vlinders (1885)
  • Claribella (1893)
  • Iris (1894)
  • Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes (1896)
  • Dit zijn Vlaamsche vertelsels (1898)
  • Three great Vlamingen (1901)
  • Vlaamsche Schilders the negating eeuw (1901)
  • De schilderkunst in België van 1830 to 1921 (1921)
  • Zomervlammen (1922)
  • Bloemlezing uit zijn poëzie (1932)
  • Keurbladzijden uit het werk (1942)

literature

  • George Meir: Pol de Mont. A study over zijn leven en zijn werk . Amsterdam and Antwerp 1932.
  • Franz Fromme : Letters from Klaus Groth to Pol de Mont. In: The Schleswig-Holsteiner. 13, No. 4, 1932 (with a biography of de Mont).

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personal data
SURNAME Mont, Pol de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mont, Karel Maria Polydoor de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Wambeek
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1931
Place of death Berlin