Georges Rodenbach

Natasha Ryan (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

Born 16 Jul 1855
Died 25 Dec 1898

Places

Born in Belgium
Active in Belgium; France

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Poet

Resources

Rodenbach's Works

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Georges Rodenbach is among the most well known of the Belgian Symbolists writing towards the end of the nineteenth century, and his fame is generally attributed to his 1892 novel,

Bruges-la-Morte

. Nonetheless, Rodenbach was a prolific writer who produced a number of poetry collections, as well as three other novels and several pieces of theatre and journalism.

Born in Tournai on 16 July 1855 to Constantin-Auguste Rodenbach, a civil servant in the ‘Ministère de l’Intérieur’, and Rosalie-Adélaïde Gall, Rodenbach had Germanic ancestry on his father’s side and French on his mother’s. When Georges was four months old, the Rodenbach family left French-speaking Tournai and relocated to Ghent, in the heart of Flanders. There, they occupied a comfortable position in society – a fact

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Citation: Ryan, Natasha. "Georges Rodenbach". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 December 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13779, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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