Paul Kenis was a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 writer.

Education

He attended high school in Turnhout and in Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

 and studied Germanic languages at the University of Ghent.

Career

After he had done some historical research in libraries in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, he started working at the ministry of Finances in Brussels. He founded and edited the illustrated magazines De Boomgaard (E:the orchard) and Het Roode Zeil (E:the red sail), mad contributions to Elsevier, Groot-Nederland, De Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, and was secretary of the Vereniging van Vlaamse Letterkundigen (E: Association of Flemish Writers).

Source

• Paul Kenis (Dutch)
• Paul Kenis (Dutch)