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WILLEMS, JEAN FRANCOIS (1793-'t846)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 658 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WILLEMS, JEAN FRANCOIS (1793-'t846) , Flemish writer, began
life
  in the office of a notary at Anvers. He devoted his leisure to literature, and in 18ro he gained a prize for poetry with an ode in celebration of the peace of Tilsit. He hailed with enthusiasm the constitution of the kingdom of the
Netherlands
 , and the revival of Flemish literature; and he published a number of spirited and eloquent writings in support of the claims of the native
tongue
  of the
Netherlands
 . His political sympathies were with the Orange party at the revolution of 1830, and these views led him into trouble with the provisional government. Willems, however, was soon recognized as the unquestioned
leader
  of the Flemish popular
movement
 , the
chief
 
plank
  in whose platform he made the complete equality of the languages in the government and the law courts. He died at
Ghent
  in 1846.
Among his writings, which were very numerous, the most important were: Les Sciences et les arts (1816), Aux Beiges (1818); Etude sur les origines et l'histoire des temps primitifs de la ville d'Anvers (1828); Melanges de litterature et d'histoire (1829); besides several learned
critical
  editions of old Flemish texts.


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