Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove

Joseph Marie Bruno Constantin Kervyn de Lettenhove ( born August 17, 1817 in Sint- Michiels, † April 2, 1891 ) was a Belgian politician and chronicler.

Joseph Maria Bruno Konstantin Kervyn de Lettenhove delivered several good editions of source texts, such as the Commentaires de Charles -Quint (Brussels 1862), the oeuvre de Georges Chastellain ( 1863-66, 8 vols ), the Chroniques de Froissart (1863 ff, 26 vols ) and the Lettres et de Philippe de Commines Trade Negotiations (1867, 3 vols ) and a Histoire de Flandre ( 1847-50, 6 vols, 3rd edition 1874, 4 vols ); Froissart; étude littéraire sur le XIV siècle (1858, 2 vols ), the latter work was crowned by the French Academy.

Other works:

• Jacques d' Arte Velde (1863 )
• La Flandre pendant les trois siècles derniers
• Histoire et chroniques de Flandres (1879 ff )
• Relations politiques des Pays -Bas et de l' Angleterre sous le règne de Philippe II ( 1882-87, vol 1-5)
• Les Huguenots et les Gueux ( 1883-86, 6 vols )
• Documents inédits, relatifs à l' histoire du XVI. siècle " (1883 ff )

He was a member of the Belgian and the French Academy of Sciences and the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, in which he belongs to the clerical party; short period (1870 /71) he was also the Minister of Education.