Franz Hellens

Franz Hellens is the pen name of Frédéric Van Ermengem, born in Brussels on 8 September 1881, son of the bacteriologist who discovered the cause of botulism; he grew up near Ghent. A doctor of law, he gave up the bar and became a librarian, then chief librarian of Parliament. In 1921 he founded a review that became Le Disque vert, in which he revealed Henri Michaux, and was one of the great representatives of Belgian fantasy writing. He lived in Paris from 1947 to 1971 and died in Brussels on 20 January 1972.

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• NovelMemoirs from ElsinoreMémoires d'ElseneurFranz Hellens · 1954Literature