Thomas Braun (writer)

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Thomas Braun, 1876–1961

Thomas Braun (born September 8, 1876 in Brussels , † September 11, 1961 in Ixelles ) was a Belgian writer , literary scholar and lawyer .

Life

Thomas Braun was born in 1876 as the son of the lawyer and politician Alexandre Braun , who was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in 1925. His grandfather was the educator Thomas Braun senior.

His family was shaped by lawyers and magistrates, which shaped his personal later career. He studied in Brussels, Bonn and at the Leuven University Law . In Bonn he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Bavaria Bonn in the CV, in Leuven of the KAV Lovania Löwen .

From 1891 he worked with the Magasin littéraire et scientifique . In 1897 he published his first poem under the title: Le Spectateur catholique . Three years later, his book Livre des bénédictions caused a sensation. In the same year he also married his first wife Maguertie Van Mons, who died in 1919. His son Benoît Braun , who is also a writer, comes from his later second marriage to Helen Moeller .

During the First World War, Braun was involved in at least two proceedings against Belgian spies ( Edith Cavell and Hermine Vaneukem ) as a defense attorney.

In 1921 his work À des absents, composed between 1914 and 1918, was published . After that, many more works were published at irregular intervals until his death.

In 1932 Braun supported the erection of a crucifixion group from Le Tréhou , a town in French Brittany , in the Maissin cemetery.

On April 22, 1939 he was appointed to the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , but was only able to join in 1946 because of the events of World War II . He was also at the Académie luxembourgeoise.

Braun was also a member of the Cercle Léon XIII.

Publications

  • L'An, poésie, Bruxelles-Lyon, Éditions Claesen, 1898.
  • Le Livre des bénédictions, poésie, Bruxelles, Éditions O. Schepens, 1900.
  • Francis Jammes et les poètes simples, essai, Bruxelles, Éditions La libre esthétique, 1900.
  • Propos d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Bruxelles, Éditions Van Oest, 1908.
  • Paul Verlaine en Ardenne, essai, Paris, Éditions Les Marches de l'Est, 1909.
  • À des absents (1914–1918), poésie, Bruxelles, Paris, Lille, Éditions Cahiers de l'Amitié de France et de Flandre, 1921.
  • Fumée d'Ardenne, Bruxelles, Éditions Deman, 1912.
  • Le Beau temps, poésie, Bruxelles, Éditions Robert Sand, 1923.
  • Ex-voto, essai, Bruxelles, Éditions Vromant, 1932.
  • Thrène pour la mort du roi, poésie, Bruxelles, Éditions Universelle, Bruxelles, 1934.
  • Notre zodiaque, poésie, Bruxelles-Luxembourg, Éditions de l'Ouest, 1938.
  • Miroir de justice, essai, Bruxelles, Éditions La Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1938.
  • Amour de l'Ardenne, essai, Bruxelles, Éditions Durendal, 1949.
  • Poésie 1898–1948, poésie, Paris, Éditions Mercure de France, 1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Braun, Thomas, 1876-1961. In: viaf.org. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique: Thomas Braun. In: arllfb.be. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jim Macgregor, Gerry Docherty: Prolonging the Agony: How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years . TrineDay, 2018, ISBN 978-1-63424-156-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Thomas Braun: Amour de l'Ardenne "dans les sections" Discours au Trého , pp. 161–167
  5. ↑ Thomas Brown: Au calvaire Breton de Maissin . Pp. 177-190.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian writer, literary scholar and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1961
Place of death Ixelles