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Max Rooses

Flemish writer

Died when: 75 years 155 days (905 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Max Rooses

Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp.Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège to study Philosophy and Literature.

From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the Koninklijk Athenaeum (Royal Athenaeum) in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated with a degree in Literature from the University of Liège.

In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur, and in 1866 in Ghent.Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.


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