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Johan Michiel Dautzenberg

Died in 1869

Johan Michiel Dautzenberg was born in Heerlen, in Dutch Limburg, on 6 December 1808, the eldest son of a master tailor. He learned Latin from a chaplain, became in 1826 the secretary of a count whom he followed to Paris, then a notary's clerk, a teacher in Mons and Tournai, a professor of French in Ghent, a tutor, and finally, from 1839, an accountant in Brussels. In 1857 he founded an educational journal with fellow teachers and translated a German poet. He died in Ixelles on 4 February 1869.

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