Lode Van Den Bergh

Lode Van Den Bergh

Bust of Aster Berkhof in St-Jozef-Rijkevorse
Born 18 June 1920
Rijkevorsel, Belgium
Nationality Belgium
Other names Aster Berkhof
Piet Visser
Occupation writer
Spouse(s) Nora Steyaert

Lode Van Den Bergh (born 18 June 1920), pseudonym Aster Berkhof and Piet Visser, is a Belgian writer. He is married to Nora Steyaert. He was born in Rijkevorsel.

Education

He first went to the primary school in Rijkevorsel where his father was director. For his high school he went to the Klein Seminarie in Hoogstraten. He studied Germanic philology from 1938 until 1942 at the Catholic University of Leuven, and in 1946 he obtained a PhD in philosophy.

Career

He started his career as a monitor at the Catholic University of Leuven, subsequently he worked as a teacher at the Royal Athenaea in Antwerp, Brussels and Koekelberg. Finally he became a professor at the Saint Ignatius Faculty in Antwerp.

Bibliography

See also

Sources