Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck

male, deceased (1441)
Renaissance painter, Burgundian Netherlands, Barthélemy van Eyck, oil painting, Early Netherlandish painter, Johannes de Eyck…FromGhent
Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck (c. 1385 - July 9, 1441) was a 15th century Early Netherlandish painter who lived in the then Duchy of Burgundy...
Jacob van Artevelde

Jacob van Artevelde

male, deceased (1345)
angry mob, bruges, Count of Flanders, flanders, flemish, belgian…ghent, FromGhent, Brewer of Ghent
Jacob van Artevelde (c. 1290 - 1345), also known as the Wise Man and the Brewer of Ghent, Flemish statesman and political leader, was born in Ghent...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

male, deceased (1558)
ruler of the Burgundian territories, Holy Roman emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of the Romans, Roman Catholic, Philip of Burgundy…FromGhent
Charles V (or Charles I of Spain) (24 February 1500 - 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands (1506-1555), King of Aragon...
Victor Horta

Victor Horta

male, deceased (1947)
Art Nouveau architect, belgian, Hôtel Tassel, architect, Art Nouveau, Maison Autrique…ghent, FromGhent
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect."...
Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

male, deceased (1949)
Belgian poet in French, Ghent University alumni, Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian writer in French, Nobel laureate in Literature, FromGhent
Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. He was awarded the...
Hugo van der Goes

Hugo van der Goes

male, deceased (1482)
artists' guild, Early Netherlandish painter, bruges, flemish, Medici, ghent…FromGhent
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482) was a Flemish painter. Born in Ghent, he entered the artists' guild there in 1467. He was later elected dean of...
Leo Baekeland

Leo Baekeland

male, deceased (1944)
from Florida, Perkin Medal, from Dutchess County, New York, Ghent University alumni, naturalized citizen of the United States, Belgian-American…ghent, university of ghent, FromGhent, Ghent, Belgium, A real gent from Ghent
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893)...
Daniel Heinsius

Daniel Heinsius

male, deceased (1655)
Leiden University faculty, New Latin author, Leiden University alumni, Dutch Renaissance, FromGhent, ghent
Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (June 9, 1580 - February 25, 1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, was born at Ghent.
Johan Vande Lanotte

Johan Vande Lanotte

male, 54 years old
socialist, University of Antwerp alumni, Belgian Minister of State, Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte, FromGhent, politician
Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte (b. 6 July 1955, Poperinge) is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the SP.A, and became its party president...
Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge

male, 67 years old
IOC Session, Belgium national rugby union team, Belgian national rugby union team, Ghent University alumni, Salt Lake City, Orthopedic…ghent, FromGhent
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International...