Jean Stecher
Auguste Jean Stecher was a Belgian literary historian and literary critic, sometimes writing under the pen name Lieven Everwyn, who was a professor at Ghent University and Liège University and a contributor to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique. His magnum opus was a 4-volume edition of the works of Jean Lemaire de Belges.Life
Stecher was born in Ghent on 11 October 1820. His parents kept a hotel in the city. He studied at the state secondary school and the state university there, obtaining a doctorate in 1841. He began teaching at the University of Ghent, in 1850 transferring to the University of Liège.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 8 May 1876 and a full member on 9 May 1881.
Stecher died in Liège on 3 September 1909.Works
;As author
- , Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde
- , De eerste Fransche Revolutie
- Flamands et Wallons
- Étude sur les proverbes
- Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique
;As editor
;As translator
;Articles
- "Le Drame réaliste au Moyen Age", Revue de Belgique, vol. 34
