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VAN BEERS, JAN - LoveToKnow Article on VAN BEERS, JAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | VAN BEEBS, JAN (1821-1888), Belgian poet, usually called " the elder " to distinguish him from his son, Jan van Beers, the well-known painter, was born at Antwerp on the 22nd of February 1821. |
 | | Van Beers started life as a teacher of Dutch language and literature, first at Malines, then at Lierre, and in 1860 was appointed a professor of both at the Athenaeum (high school) in Antwerp, where he had also been a sub-librarian in the communal library. |
 | | Van Beers died at Antwerp on the I4th of November 1888. |
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