Émile Van Arenbergh
Émile Van Arenbergh (1854–1934) was a Belgian magistrate, poet and biographer.
Life
[edit ]Van Arenbergh was born in Leuven on 15 May 1854 and studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven. While a student he wrote for La Semaine des étudiants, getting to know Emile Verhaeren, Iwan Gilkin and Albert Giraud.[1]
After graduating he served as a magistrate in turn in Diest, Anderlecht and Ixelles, and contributed to Edmond Picard's Pandectes belges and to Le Journal des Tribunaux . He further contributed more than 400 articles to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique , and was the author of biographies of Don John of Austria and Charles V.[1] As a writer he was best known as a poet, part of the circle of La Jeune Belgique . In 1921 he was elected to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique. He died in Ixelles on 3 January 1934.[1]
Works
[edit ]- Médailles (Paris and Brussels, 1921)
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c Gustave Charlier, "Arenbergh, Émile Van", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 29 (Brussels, 1956), 146-147.