Marie-Elizabeth Belper is a Belgian writer and philanthropist within the framework of the Flemish Movement for Independence and assistance to women's Catholic schools.
| Marie Elizabeth Belper | |
|---|---|
| fr. Marie-elisabeth belpaire | |
| Date of Birth | January 31, 1853 |
| Place of Birth | Antwerp , Belgium |
| Date of death | June 9, 1948 (aged 95) |
| A place of death | Antwerp , Belgium |
| Citizenship |  Belgium |
| Occupation | , , |
Her father, Alfons Belper (1817-1854), was an engineer, and her mother, Betsy Teichmann (1821-1900) [1] , came from a family of wealthy Antwerp industrialists. Her childhood passed in the house of her maternal grandfather, Theodore Teichmann ( Dutch. Théodore Teichmann ), a senator and former governor of the province of Antwerp . His father’s grandfather was named Antoine Belper, he once studied at the famous Paris Polytechnic School with her other grandfather, until he was forced to return from France in order not to get into Napoleon’s army [2] . After graduating from the law department of Brussels University, he married Celine Sirez and began to work as a lawyer. Meanwhile, Theodor Teichman graduated from the Polytechnic School and married first to Jenny Cooppal, and after her sudden death to her sister. Betsy Teichman was their second child of four. The Belper and Teichmann families were very close, and one of Marie-Elizabeth Belper’s brother brothers (Frederick Belper) was married to one of her mother’s sisters (Maria Teichman). Another mother's sister, Constance Teichmann ( Dutch: Constance Teichmann ), was also an important figure in Flanders, and her contribution from the philanthropist and philanthropist had a great influence on her niece. Father Marie Elizabeth died when she was only a year and a half, and his brother Frederick moved to them played his role in her childhood [2] .
Through private lessons, Marie-Elizabeth Belper mastered several languages, including German , English , Dutch , French , and Danish . She developed culturally and artistically following her mother and aunt Constance ( Dutch: Constance Teichmann ), learned to sing, draw, play the piano. However, her formal education ended at the age of fourteen - she was not sent to a girls' boarding school , believing that life locked up is not sufficient preparation for real life [3] .
Belper began with co-authorship with a family friend, Dr. Schapman (“From Life”, 1875) and Matilda Rambu (under the pseudonym Hilda Ram [4] : “Wonderland”, 1892), but then she began to write on her own, which she continued to do until her death ( the last book is Gestalt of the Past, a series of 25 essays written in 1938-1940, the book was published in 1947). She financed the literary newspaper Dietsche Warande en Belfort ( DW B ), which she created on the initiative of the merger of two less popular publications [1] , and in time of war founded the De Belgische Standaard , an advanced newspaper on the Iron Front . Yser Front ) [5] . The list of all her articles in these and other newspapers in small print takes ten pages [4] .
In 1902, she built a building called the Belper Institute and designed to provide girls with a decent education in Flanders. Within its walls, the Institute of Noble Maidens (Institut Supérieur pour jeunes filles) was founded in 1905, the St. Liutgard School in 1912, the Catholic Flemish Women's High School in 1919. She also actively supported women's suffrage and official bilingualism (equality of both French and Dutch, and their carriers). In wartime, she actively defended the rights of Flemish soldiers, whose commanders were French-speaking officers.
Belper was once called the “mother of the Flemish movement” ( Eng. Flemish Movement ), because she morally and financially supported a number of Flemish initiatives. She became a full member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Linguistics and Literature ( Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature ) in 1922.
Sources
- ↑ 1 2 “Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire (1853-1948) Facetten van een levenswerk”, onder redactie van Aline Dereere en Helga Van Beeck, Stichting Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Antwerpen, 2002.
- ↑ 1 2 Benoit A. Roose, “De wijze vrouw van Vlaanderen. Het level van Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Mercurius, Antwerpen, 1948.
- ↑ Aline Dereere, Helga Van Beeck, "Marie Elisabeth Belpaire (1853-1948) Beelden uit een leven", 2003. ISBN 90806451.
- ↑ 1 2 Geraldine Reymenants, “Marie Elisabeth Belpaire. Gender en macht in het literaire veld 1900-1940 ”, KADOC-Studies 35, Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2013.
- ↑ “Dictionnaire des femmes belges XIXe et XXe siècles”, sous la direction d'Éliane Gubin, Catherine Jacques, Valérie Piette en Jean Puissant, Éditions Racine, Bruxelles, 2006. Pp. 46-48