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Flemish poet and writer
Emmanuel Hiel
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Emmanuel Hiel
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Born
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1834-05-30
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30 May 1834
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Died
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(1899-08-27)
(aged 65)
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Nationality
| Belgian
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Occupation(s)
| poet, writer
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Emmanuel Hiel
(30 May 1834 – 27 August 1899), was a
Flemish
-Dutch
poet
and prose writer.
Hiel was born at
Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde
. During his life he held various jobs, from teacher and government official to
journalist
and bookseller, busily writing all the time both for the theatre and the magazines of North and South Netherlands. His last posts were those of librarian at the Industrial Museum and professor of declamation at the Conservatoire in
Brussels
.
Hiel took an active and prominent part in the so-called
Flemish movement
in Belgium, and his name is constantly associated with those of
Jan van Beers
,
Jan Frans Willems
, and
Peter Benoit
. Benoit set some of Hiel's verses to music, notably in his oratorios
Lucifer
(performed in London at the
Royal Albert Hall
and elsewhere) and
De Schelde
("The Scheldt"). The Dutch composer Richard Hol (of
Utrecht
) composed music for Hiel's
Ode to Liberty
, and
van Gheluwe
used Hiel's verses in his
Songs for Big and Small Folk
(second edition, much enlarged, 1879). That music greatly contributed the popularity of Hiel's writing in schools and among Belgian choral societies.
Hiel also translated several foreign lyrics. His rendering of
Tennyson
's
Dora
was published in Antwerp around 1871. For the national festival of 1880 at Brussels, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Belgian independence, Hiel composed two
cantatas
,
Belgenland
("The Land of the Belgians") and
Rer Belgenland
("Honour to Belgium"), which, set to music, were much appreciated.
Hiel's efforts to counteract
Walloon
influences and bring about a
rapprochement
between the Netherlanders in the north and the
Teutonic
racial sympathizers across the Rhine made him very popular with both. A volume of his best poems was in 1874 the first in a collection of Dutch authors published in
Leipzig
,
Germany
.
He died in 1899 at
Schaerbeek
.
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Among his better-known poetic works are:
- Looverkens
("Leaflets," 1857)
- Nieuwe Liedekens
("New Poesies," 1861)
- Gedichten
("Poems," 1863)
- Psalmen, Zangen, en Oratorios
("Psalms, Songs, and Oratorios," 1869)
- De Wind
(1869), an inspiriting cantata, which had a large measure of success and was crowned
- De Liefde in Leven
("Love in Life," 1870)
- Elle
and
Isa
(two musical dramas, 1874)
- Liederen voor Groote en Kleine Kinderen
("Songs for Big and Small Folk," 1879)
- Jakoba van Beieren
("Jacquelein of Bavaria," a poetic drama, 1880)
- Mathilda van Denemarken
(a lyrical drama, 1890)
His collected poetical works were published in three volumes at
Roeselare
in 1885.
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