Jean Stecher Explained

Auguste Jean Stecher (1820–1909) was a Belgian literary historian and literary critic, sometimes writing under the pen name Lieven Everwyn, who was a professor at Ghent University and University of Liège and a contributor to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique. His magnum opus was a 4-volume edition of the works of Jean Lemaire de Belges.

Life

Stecher was born in Ghent on 11 October 1820. His parents kept a hotel in the city.^[1] He studied at the state secondary school and the state university there, obtaining a doctorate in 1841.^[1] He began teaching at the University of Ghent, in 1850 transferring to the University of Liège.

He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 8 May 1876 and a full member on 9 May 1881.^[2]

Stecher died in Liège on 3 September 1909.

Works

As author

• (as Lieven Everwyn), Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde (Ghent, 1845)^[3]
• (as Lieven Everwyn), De eerste Fransche Revolutie (Ghent, 1848)^[4]
• Flamands et Wallons (Liège, 1859)^[5]
• Étude sur les proverbes (Liège, 1861)^[6]
• Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)

As editor

• Oeuvres de Jean Lemaire de Belges (4 vols., Leuven, 1882-1891)

As translator

• Hendrik Conscience, La Guerre des Paysans (2 vols., Liège, 1853)

Articles

• "Le Drame réaliste au Moyen Age", Revue de Belgique, vol. 34 (1880)

Notes and References

1. Walter Gobbers, "Stecher (Jean Auguste)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 34 (Brussels, 1967), 726-734.
2. Web site: Auguste Jean Stecher. academieroyale.be.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=lXY-AAAAcAAJ Korte levensschets
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=PkRHAAAAcAAJ De eerste Fransche Revolutie
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=N4tBAAAAcAAJ Flamands et Wallons
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=QSZbAAAAQAAJ Étude sur les proverbes