Aster Berkhof Explained

Lode Van Den Bergh
Birth Date:	1920 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	Rijkevorsel, Belgium
Death Place:	Brasschaat
Nationality:	Belgian
Other Names:	Aster Berkhof Piet Visser
Occupation:	writer
Spouse:	Nora Steyaert (died 2020)

Lodewijk Paulina Van Den Bergh (18 June 1920 – 29 September 2020),^[1] known as Lode Van Den Bergh, also using the pseudonyms Aster Berkhof^[2] and Piet Visser,^[3] was a Belgian writer.

Early life

Van Den Bergh was born in Rijkevorsel on 18 June 1920.^[4] He first went to the primary school in Rijkevorsel where his father was director. For his high school he went to the Klein Seminarie in Hoogstraten. He studied Germanic philology from 1938 until 1942 at the Catholic University of Leuven, and in 1946 he obtained a PhD in philosophy.^[4]

Career

Van Den Bergh began his professional career as a scientific assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven,^[4] subsequently working as a teacher at the Royal Athenaea in Antwerp, Brussels and Koekelberg.^[3] Finally he became a professor at the Saint Ignatius Faculty in Antwerp.^[2]

Partial bibliography

• Rotsen in de storm, I en II (1947, novel)^[5]
• Veel geluk, professor (1948, novel)
• De heer in grijze mantel (1951, novel)
• Meester Groenevelt (1953, novel)
• Tijgers in Bengalen (1956, youth novel, also published under the pseudonym Piet Visser)
• De man in het midden (1957, novel)
• De heer des huizes (1958, novel)
• De Chinese jonk (1959, novel)
• Doden worden niet meer levend (1960, novel)
• Dagboek van een missionaris (1962, novel)
• Het huis van Mama Pondo (1972, novel)
• Lieve, mooie aarde (1977, novel)
• Leven in oktober (1978, novel)
• Toen wij allen samen waren (1978, novel)
• Mijn huis in de verte (1979, novel)
• De winners (1981, novel)
• De nacht van Muriel (1984, novel)
• Donnadieu (1991, novel)
• Octopus Dei (1992, novel)
• Over liefde gesproken (1993)
• Een meisje van niks (1994)^[6]
• Happy town (1994)
• Met Gods geweld (1996)
• Hoog spel (1997)
• Beminde schurken (1999)^[7]
• De winter komt (2001)
• Verborgen schade (2001)^[8]
• Geliefde kapelaan (2002)
• Daneelken (2003)
• Angelina (2004)
• Bagdad Palace (2005)
• De kleine revolver (2005)
• Tam tam (2006)
• Pipo (2007)
• De naam van de vader (2008)
• Alle verhalen (2009)
• Dodelijk papier (2010)
• De wet van Bas (2011)^[9]
• Aline (2013)
• De marmeren meisjes (2013)

See also

• Flemish literature

External links

• Aster Berkhof at Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch) Veel geluk, professor! available for free download
• Aster Berkhof Museum (in Dutch)

Notes and References

1. News: Schrijver Aster Berkhof (bekend van "Veel geluk, professor!") is gestorven. Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie . 29 September 2020. nl.
2. Web site: De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs. 1985. 29 September 2020. nl. Digital Library for Dutch Literature.
3. Web site: ASTER BERKHOF. Schrijversgewijs. 29 September 2020. nl.
4. Web site: Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur. 29 September 2020. nl. Rita Bouckaert-Ghesquiere. Digital Library for Dutch Literature.
5. Web site: Oorspronkelijke publicaties van Aster Berkhof. Digital Library for Dutch Literature. 29 September 2020. nl.
6. Web site: Een meisje van niks WorldCat.org . 2023-01-02 . www.worldcat.org . nl.
7. Web site: Beminde schurken : roman WorldCat.org . 2023-01-02 . www.worldcat.org . nl.
8. Web site: Geliefde kapelaan : roman WorldCat.org . 2023-01-02 . www.worldcat.org . nl.
9. Book: Aster Berkhof. 2011. 9789089241757. Houtekiet, Antwerp. De wet van Bas.