Victor Coremans

Victor Amédée Jacques Marie Coremans (1802–1872) was a Belgian archivist, journalist, and historian.[1]

Life

Victor was born in Brussels on 5 October 1802, the son of Jacques-Jean Coremans, a judge, and Anne-Marie Vandersande.[2] At an early age he moved to Austria, being expelled from Vienna in 1821 for sedition. From 1831 to 1832, although living in Munich, he was the publisher and editor of the Nuremberg radical newspaper Die Freie Presse (The Free Press).[3] For this work he was imprisoned on political charges by the Bavarian authorities.[4] While incarcerated he wrote three German-language books that were well-received in Germany: Die Stimme aus dem Kerker (The Voice from the Dungeon), Kerkerblumen (Dungeon Flowers), and Die göttlichen Befreier (The Divine Liberator).[4]

After his release he spent some time in Switzerland before returning to his native Belgium. On 13 April 1836 he was appointed to the newly created Commission royale d'Histoire in Brussels. He went on to become the curator of the German collection in the National Archives of Belgium, and to publish several more works.[4] He retired from his official positions on 7 August 1872.

He died in Ixelles on 23 October 1872.[2]

Publications

During his career, Coremans authored a number of books and articles.

His scholarly writing addressed special topics in the history, culture, and politics of Belgium, Germany, and Austria. He published scholarly pieces primarily in the Bulletin de la Commission royale d'histoire (1844-1847) and in the Revue d'histoire et d'archéologie (1860-1863) One influential article examined the origins and permutations of the legendary monarch Gambrinus.[5]

Throughout his later life he continued to write activist journalism promoting liberal nationalism, with a particular emphasis on Flemish nationhood, for such journals as Vlaamsch België, De Noordstar, and De Zweep.

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References

  1. ↑ Cuvelier, J. (1956). Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, ed. Biographie Nationale, Vol. XXIX (PDF) (in French). Brussels: Émile Bruylant. pp. 481–486. OCLC 65751192.
  2. 1 2 "De Blauwe Wie is Wie". liberaalarchief.be (in Dutch). Liberal Archive. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Die Freie Presse 1831. Available on Google Books
  4. 1 2 3 Le bibliophile belge, Volume 12 : Histoire des livres—Essai d'un dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes publiés en belgique (in French). pp. 302–303. Retrieved 2017-04-25 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Coremans, Victor Amédée Jacques Marie (1842). "Note sur la tradition de Gambrivius roi mythique de Flandre par le docteur Coremans". Bulletin de la Commission royale d'histoire (in French). 5: 378–388. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

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