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Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect, but he also wrote in other languages like Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and Greek.
Guido Gezelle (born May 1, 1830, Bruges, Belg.—died Nov. 27, 1899, Bruges) was a Flemish priest and poet who was one of the masters of 19th-century European lyric poetry. Gezelle was ordained in 1854 while already a teacher at Roeselare, where he remained until 1860.
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Learn about Guido Gezelle, a 19th century poet, journalist, teacher, linguist and translator from Flanders. Explore his poems, stories, archives and collections on this website.
The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modernFlemish poetry.
Guido Gezelle, born in Bruges in 1830, left a varied œuvre as a man of letters, journalist, translator and populariser. But it is mainly as a poet that he occupies an illustrious position in the history of Dutch literature. He is undoubtedly the most innovative and original Flemish poet between 1680 and 1880.
Meet the well-known Flemish poet Guido Gezelle. He was a real jack-of-all-trades. In addition to being a poet, he was also a journalist, teacher, linguist and translator. Discover where he grew up, worked and lived and what his life was like in 19th century Bruges, Roeselare and Courtrai.
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Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) was a catholic priest, poet, linguist, journalist and translator. In 1854 he became a teacher at the preparatory seminary in Roeselare. He dreamed of becoming a missionary in England, but was not allowed to do so.
