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The Age of Gezelle

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Chateaubriand 006
1802
1802

F. Chateaubriand

Génie du christianisme (Genius of Christianity)

GM 90 47
1815
1815

Napoleon

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo.

Willem I

King of the Netherlands

Guido Gezelle
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1816
1816

Start of production steam engines

by the company of John Cockerill in Seraing

Alphonse de Lamartine
1820
1820

A. Lamartine

Méditations Poétiques (Poetical Meditations)

Guido Gezelle
Balzac Boulanger2
1829
1829

H. de Balzac

Balzac publishes the first part of the Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy)

GGA 9434 F
1830
1830

The Kingdom of Belgium

Independence

F. Mistral

Birth of F. Mistral, Provencal poet and philologist

Guido Gezelle
GGA 9037 F
1830
1830

Birth Guido Gezelle

Born in Bruges on the 1st of May

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1831
1831

Death of G. Hegel

Guido Gezelle
Sir Walter Scott W. Scott
1832
1832

Death of Sir Walter Scott and Goethe

Encyclical Mirari Vos

The pope condemns Lamennais and Liberal-Catholicism

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1838
1838

Construction Bruges-Ghent railway

H. Conscience

publishes De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders).

Guido Gezelle
Richard Wagner
1845
1845

R. Wagner

Tannhäuser

KSR 1832
1846
1846

Gezelle student

at the Minor Seminary of Roeselare

Guido Gezelle
JF Willems
1846
1846

J.F. Willems

Death

Agricultural crisis in Flanders

The first telegraph connection

is being established between Brussels, Mechelen and Antwerp.

Marx and Engels
1848
1848

Marx and Engels

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Guido Gezelle
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1850
1850

Gezelle theological studies

at the Major Seminary in Bruges

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1854
1854

Gezelle teacher

at the Minor Seminary in Roeselare

Guido Gezelle
Charles Baudelaire Beaudelaire
1857
1857

G. Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Ch. Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)

GGA 8904 F
1857
1857

Gezelle teacher in poësis

at the Minor Seminary Roeselare 1857 until 1859 (Poësis is the last but one year in secondary school)

Guido Gezelle
AL Engels klooster IIIA 008 000v 001r
1858
1858

Gezelle's debut as a poet

Vlaemsche dichtoefeningen (Poetical Exercises in Flemish) and Kerkhofbloemen (Churchyard Flowers)

Charles Darwin 01
1859
1859

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

Guido Gezelle
Multatuli cropped
1860
1860

Multatuli

Max Havelaar

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1860
1860

Gezelle rector

of the English College in Bruges

philosophy teacher

at the English Seminary in Bruges

XXXIII Kleengedichtjes

(XXXIII Short Poems)

Guido Gezelle
Julius van oost 002
1860
1860

The Papal Zouaves have been defeated

at Castelfidardo

Construction of the Italian nation

GGA9576 Fr
1861
1861

Gezelle vice rector

of the English Seminary in Bruges

Guido Gezelle
GGA0175
1862
1862

Gezelle Gedichten, gezangen en gebeden

(Poems, Songs and Prayers)

Pius IX
1864
1864

Pius IX

encyclical Quanta cura condemns civil and liberal freedom

Guido Gezelle
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1864
1864

Gezelle 't Jaer 30 (The Year 30)

Edits political weekly until 1870

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1865
1865

Leopold II on the Belgian throne

Guido Gezelle
GM 85 9
1865
1865

Gezelle Assistant priest of St Walburga's Church

Bruges

Rond den Heerd (By the Fireside)

Editor-in-chief of cultural weekly

Dostoevskij 1872 Dostojevski
1866
1866

Tolstoj and Dostojevski

are publishing their most important works

Guido Gezelle
Engraving of First Vatican Council
1870
1870

Dogma of the Papal Infallibility

GGA 9427 F Streuvels
1871
1871

E. Zola

Les Rougon-Macquar

Stijn Streuvels

Birth

End of the Franco-German war

Guido Gezelle
GGA 9571 F
1872
1872

Gezelle Assistant priest

of Our Lady’s parish in Courtrai

Gazette van Kortrijk
1873
1873

Gezelle Journalist and publicist

of local newspapers (in De Vryheid (Freedom) and later in the Gazette van Kortrijk (The Gazette of Courtrai)

Guido Gezelle
Congo
1876
1876

Leopold II

holds a conference in Brussels that will decide on the African civilization offensive

Edison incandescent lights
1878
1878

T. Edison

Invention of the electric light bulb

Guido Gezelle
GGA363 01 M
1880
1880

Gezelle Liederen, eerdichten et reliqua

(Songs, Odes et Reliqua)

GGA050903 16a
1881
1881

Gezelle Loquela

Edits a periodical on West Flemish dialect

Guido Gezelle
Nietzsche1882
1883
1883

F. Nietzsche

Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

GGA 9430 F
1886
1886

Gezelle The Song of Hiawatha

Translation of H.W. Longfellow

GGA9583 F
1886
1886

The Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature

Foundation in Ghent

Guido Gezelle
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1889
1889

Gezelle Director of a minor French sister congregation

in Courtrai

Guido Gezelle
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1890
1890

Gezelle Biekorf (Beehive)

Co-founder of a periodical on folklore

GGA 9267 F
1891
1891

Pope Leo XIII

Encyclical Rerum Novarum

Guido Gezelle
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1892
1892

G. Rodenbach

Bruges-la-Morte (Bruges, Dead City)

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1893
1893

Gezelle Tijdkrans (Wreath of Time)

Guido Gezelle
Adolf Daens
1894
1894

Priest Daens

becomes Public Representative in Belgian parliament

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1897
1897

Gezelle Rijmsnoer

(Garland of Rhyme Round and Round the Year)

Starts Goddelijke beschouwingen (Reflections on the Divine)

translation of Meditationes Theologicae (request of his bishop who wrote the original latin text)

Gelijkheidswet
1898
1898

Equality law

Dutch is recognized as an official language alongside French in Belgium

Guido Gezelle
GGA 8918 F
1899
1899

Gezelle Director of the English Convent

in Bruges

Gezelle dies

on November, 27th in Bruges

Sigmund freud um 1905
1900
1900

S. Freud

Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams)

Guido Gezelle
GGA040903 12
1901
1901

Gezelle Laatste verzen

Last Poems, posthumously

(Illustrations timeline: Gezelle Archives and Wikimedia)

This website was composed by the Guido Gezelle Archives of the Bruges Public Library

Main Library Biekorf – Kuipersstraat 3 – 8000 Bruges- Belgium

050 47 24 00 bibliotheek@brugge.be

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