Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove
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Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (August 17, 1817, Sint-Michiels, Belgium—April 3, 1891, Sint-Michiels) was a Belgian historian and politician.
He was a member of the Catholic Constitutional party and sat in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies as member for Eeklo. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the cabinet of Jules Joseph d'Anethan as minister of the interior. However his official career was short. The cabinet appointed as governor of Lille one Decker, who had been entangled in the financial speculations of Langand-Dumonceau by which the whole clerical party had been discredited, and which provoked riots. The cabinet was forced to resign, and thereafter Kervyn de Lettenhove devoted himself entirely to literature and history.
He had already become known as the author of a book on Jean Froissart (Brussels, 1855), which was crowned by the French Academy. He was also a correspondent of foreign scientific societies, and preëminent in his own country as an investigator of the national antiquities. He made translations of some of Milton's shorter poems (1839) and edited the Lettres et négociations de Philippe de Commines (1867).
He edited a series of chronicles: Chroniques relatives a l'histoire de la Belgique sous la domination des ducs de Bourgogne (Brussels, 1870-1873), and Relations politiques des Pays Bas et de l'Angleterre sous le regne de Philippe II (Brussels, 1882-1892). He wrote a history of Les Hugenots et les Gueux (Bruges, 1883-1885) in the spirit of a violent Roman Catholic partisan, but with much industry and learning. Other works include:
- Histoire de la Flandre (1847-50)
- Jacques de Artevelde (1863)
- Histoire et croniques de Flandre (1879-80)
- Marie Stuart (1889)
He died at Sint-Michiels near Bruges in 1891.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The article is available here [1]
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