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Anton Bergmann

Died in 1874

Anton Bergmann was born in Lier on 29 June 1835, the son of a lawyer who became the town's liberal mayor. A pupil at the Ghent athenaeum, he founded there with Julius Vuylsteke a student society devoted to Dutch, liberal and anticlerical, whose activities cost him his place at the University of Ghent; he took his doctorate in law in Brussels in 1858. A lawyer in Lier, he founded a weekly and published under the name Tony short stories, travel narratives and a history of his town. He died in Lier on 21 January 1874.

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