Author · Belgium
Charles de Coster
Died in 1879
Charles De Coster was born in Munich in August 1827 and grew up in Brussels. A clerk at the Société générale in his youth, he founded the literary society of the Joyeux with friends in 1847, then studied law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, which he left a democrat and an anticlerical. A journalist, he worked from 1860 to 1864 for the commission responsible for publishing the country's old laws, where he came across witchcraft trials. In 1870, he became a tutor at the École militaire. He died at Ixelles on 7 May 1879, after a life of poverty and obscurity.
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- EpicThe Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl UlenspiegelLa Légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme GoedzakCharles de Coster · 1867Literature