Paul Spaak

Paul Louis François Spaak ( born July 5, 1871 in Ixelles / Elsene, Brussels, † May 8, 1936 ) was a Belgian lawyer and writer.

Life

Born and raised in an upscale middle-class family, the son of doctor Charles Spaak, 1894, he made his thesis in law at the Free University of Brussels. On July 22, 1894, he married Marie Janson, daughter of Paul Janson and sister of Belgian Prime Minister Paul -Emile Janson.

The couple had four children, including the later Belgian Prime Minister and NATO Secretary-General Paul -Henri Spaak, the screenwriter Charles Spaak and the dramatists Claude Spaak, who was married to the resistance fighter Suzanne Spaak. The actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak are granddaughters of the couple.

After his dissertation, he began a literary research studies and published in 1894 his first work L' hérédité dans la littérature française au antérieure XIXe siècle in the Revue universitaire. He published in 1907 a book of poetry Voyages les vers mon pays, where his impressions were processed from his trips to London, Bayreuth, Grignan and Italy. His first dram " Kaatje " was released 1909. Corneil de Thoran With and Van Glabbeke he was the manager of the " Théâtre de la Monnaie ". He transferred several operas by Puccini and Toscanini into French.

Paul Spaak was from 19 August 1920 until his death, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium.