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Charles De Coster
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Belgian novelist (1827–1879)
OverviewAI-generated
Charles De Coster (1827–1879) was a Belgian writer, journalist, and poet who worked primarily in Brussels. Born in Munich, he was educated at the Free University of Brussels and began his professional career in 1847. He wrote in French, which was also his native language. De Coster died in Ixelles, Brussels, and is buried in Ixelles Cemetery.
His literary output includes works such as *The legend of the glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders & elsewhere*, *Légendes Flamandes*, *Vlämische Mären*, *Zeeland door de bril van 1873*, and *Briefe an Elisa*. His works are held in the collections of the Design Museum Gent and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1827
- Died
- 1879
- Works
- 82
Top works
- The legend of the glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders & elsewhere
- Zeeland door de bril van 1873
- Briefe an Elisa
- Légendes Flamandes
- Vlämische Mären
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 18
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+de+Coster">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,414x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,218x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,222x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,773x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster , ( 1827-08-20 ) 20 August 1827, Munich , Germany
- Died
- 7 May 1879 (1879-05-07) (aged 51), Ixelles , Belgium
- Occupation
- novelist
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Munich
- Place of death
- Brussels
- Occupation
- poet
- Educated at
- Free University of Brussels
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- Charles De Coster, print by Albert Van Dyck, 1927, Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), S.III 77616.jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
Show 12 more facts
- place of burial
- Ixelles Cemetery
- Commons category
- Charles De Coster
- date of birth
- 1827-00-00
- date of death
- 1879-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Charles De Coster
- birth name
- Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- writing language
- French
- Commons Creator page
- Charles De Coster
- start of work period
- 1847-01-01
- end of work period
- 1879-01-01
- P12674
- Louis Nerz
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles De Coster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.