Guido Gezelle

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

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Influence

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Resistance

3

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What Wikipedia says

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect, but he also wrote in other languages like Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and Greek.

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