WRITER

Émile Verhaeren

1855 - 1916

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Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (Dutch: [eːˈmilə vərˈɦaːrə(n)]; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Verhaeren is the 657th most popular writer (down from 618th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 77th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Writer.

Émile Verhaeren is most famous for his poetry.

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Among writers, Émile Verhaeren ranks 657 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Pope, Irène Némirovsky, Jacob L. Moreno, Vicente Aleixandre, Bruno Schulz, and Karl Kraus. After him are Giacomo Leopardi, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ingeborg Bachmann, Francesca da Rimini, and Alvin Toffler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Émile Verhaeren ranks 5. Before him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Ferdinand Tönnies, King C. Gillette, and Andrew Mellon. After him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Otto Liman von Sanders, John Browning, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Percival Lowell, Ernest Chausson, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Among people deceased in 1916, Émile Verhaeren ranks 29. Before him are Ivan Franko, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Charles de Foucauld, Karl Schwarzschild, Enrique Granados, and Eduard Strauss. After him are Max Reger, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Elisabeth of Wied, Percival Lowell, Nedeljko Čabrinović, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Émile Verhaeren ranks 87 out of 1,190. Before him are Father Damien (1840), Adolphe Quetelet (1796), Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes (919), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacky Ickx (1945), and Adrian Willaert (1490). After him are Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1217), Ernest Solvay (1838), Morris (1923), Hubert van Eyck (1366), and Matilda of Flanders (1031).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Émile Verhaeren ranks 5. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Georges Simenon (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), and Marguerite Yourcenar (1903). After him are Pierre Louÿs (1870), Marguerite Porete (1250), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Victor Serge (1890).

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