Dirk Geeraerts

Dirk Geeraerts

male, 54 years old
Dirk Geeraerts (born 1955, PhD 1981) holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the head of the...
Justus Lipsius

Justus Lipsius

male, deceased (1606)
Justus Lipsius, Joost Lips or Josse Lips, was a Flemish philologist and humanist. He was born in Overijse, Brabant. His parents sent him early to...
Cornelius Jansen

Cornelius Jansen

male, deceased (1576)
Cornelius Jansen, the Elder (born at Hulst, Flanders, 1510; died at Ghent, 11 April1576) was a Flemish Catholic exegete. He received his early...
Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator

male, deceased (1594)
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation to parents...
Gaston Eyskens

Gaston Eyskens

male, deceased (1988)
Gaston François Marie Eyskens was a Belgian economist, Christian Democratic politician, and statesman. He was prime minister of Belgium six times: o...
Wim Mertens

Wim Mertens

male, 56 years old
Wim Mertens (b. Neerpelt, Belgium, May 14, 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist....
Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens

male, deceased (1585)
Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name...
Raoul Weiler

Raoul Weiler

male
Raoul Weiler is President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of The Club of Rome and member of the Executive Committee of The Club of Rome. He spent...
Albrecht Rodenbach

Albrecht Rodenbach

male, deceased (1880)
Albrecht Rodenbach was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th Century. He is more...
Joan Lluís Vives

Joan Lluís Vives

male, deceased (1540)
Joan Lluís Vives (6 March, 1492-6 May, 1540 in Valencia) was a famous Valencian scholar and humanist. As a child he saw his father, grandmother a...