Emmanuel Hiel

Emmanuel Hiel ( born May 31, 1834 in Sint- Gillis- bij- Dendermonde, today city of Dendermonde, Belgium, † August 27 1899 in Schaerbeek, Belgium) was a Flemish poet.

Life

Hiel was only head of a cotton mill, then successively booksellers and customs officers, then held a post in the Ministry of the Interior and was a professor of declamation at the Conservatory of Music and librarian at the Museum of Industry in Brussels.

An avid fighter for freedom and progress, he is also emphasized as a Flemish party leaders and tonangebender Literator. As a poet, he is expected to stand unsurpassed among the representatives of the Flemish poetry of the time.

In addition to various collections of poetry, as poems (Gent 1863) and New liedekens (Gent 1861), are as important to mention particularly: the award-winning Anthem De Wind (1869 ), the two extensive chants Lucifer and De Schelde, whose performance (with music by Peter Benoit ) era, made the Vrijheidshymne ( R. Hol composed ), the oratorio Prometheus and the Norse saga borrowed Helga; Further, the seal Breidel en de Conning (1876 ), which celebrate the Battle of the Spurs at Courtrai of 1302, and the drama Jacoba van Beieren (1879 ).

He was also a great success occurred as children song writer with Liederen voor groote s small kids, which were composed for educational purposes by Leo van Gheluwe ( Liedersolfege, 1875) and later ( 1879) in second, very enlarged edition and most of the melodies German - Flemish and Flemish folk songs adapted published.

Even before he had a number of new, tender perceived and peppy poems, Bloemeken, een songs crane (Utrecht, 1877 ) and the lyric- dramatic poetry Bloemardinne (1877 ), edited. From 1862 to 1868 also appeared under Hiels line in Brussels patriotic Nederduitsch Maandschrift that after the title Nederduitsch Tijdschrift accepted.

From a later time are his sealed 1880 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence hard songs Belgenland and Eer Belgenland, which are among the strongest lyrical effusions of the poet, to emphasize. A collection of poems Hiels appeared in three volumes (dense plants Volledige, Rousselaere 1885).

The International Masonic Encyclopedia gives him no further details as Masons.