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Hendrik Geeraert (15 July 1863, Nieuwpoort, Belgium – 17 January 1925, Bruges) was a Belgian folk hero who, during the interwar period, came to symbolize the Belgian resistance movement against the German forces in World War I. He became famous among Belgian soldiers in 1914 after the Battle of the Yser where he, serving as a Nieuwpoort skipper, opened the sluices of the Yser River, flooding the polders and bringing the German advance to a halt.
Geeraert was born at Langestraat 40 in Nieuwpoort, the son of the skipper Augustine Gheeraert and Anna Veranneman, a housekeeper and lace-maker. Hendrik became a riverboat skipper. At the age of 24, he married Melanie Jonckheerein in Veurne. The couple had eight children.
HendrikGeeraert (15 July 1863, Nieuwpoort, Belgium – 17 January 1925, Bruges) was a Belgian folk hero who, during the interwar period, came to symbolize...
Geeraerts and variant Geeraert are surnames. They may refer to: HendrikGeeraert (1863–1925), Belgian folk hero René Geeraert (1908–1999), Belgian middle-distance...
Veurn investigating judge and with the cooperation of Karel Cogge and HendrikGeeraert. Further inland, the Allied lines were manned by British and French...
occupation of Belgium during World War I Two sluiceworkers, Karel Cogge and HendrikGeeraert, became national heroes in Belgium for their role in the inundations...
Flanders around 1577 to continue his career in Antwerp. In 1577 a 'Mercus Geeraert Painter' was registered as a master in the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp...
Veurne-Ambacht or Noordvaart drainage sluice. This is the famous spillway where HendrikGeeraert and Fernand Ume opened the gates on October 29, 1914, flooding the...
20 December – Bob de Moor, comics artist (died 1992) 17 January – HendrikGeeraert (born 1863), sluice-keeper 23 February – Joris Helleputte (born 1852)...
2022. Van Dale's dictionary was first published after the death of Johan Hendrik van Dale, who had started work on his New Dictionary of the Dutch Language...
French). 8 (1): 79–94. doi:10.3406/remmm.1970.1033. ISSN 0035-1474. Brandt, Geeraert (1907). Uit het leven en bedrijf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter... [From...
Register, vols. 1-3 (University of Toronto Press, 2003), 308-309. Brandt, Geeraert; Chamberlayne, John (1740), The History of the Reformation and Other Ecclesiastical...
1899 – 1984) Louis Paul Boon (1912 – 1979) Hugo Claus (1929 – 2008) Jef Geeraerts (1930 – 2015) Eric de Kuyper (born 1942) Herman de Coninck (1944 – 1997)...
the Academy of Antwerp in 1763). Portrait of the painter Martin Joseph Geeraerts. Louvre, Paris: Portrait of a Family (signed and dated 1731). Hermitage...
in Prague and in Antwerp, the most prominent of whom was Marten Jozef Geeraerts. Very few of his works have survived. He was a painter of history and...
Jan Peeters I, page 355 Petrus Boel, page 363 Jan van de Hecke, page 365 Hendrik van der Borcht II, page 383 Jan Meyssens, page 387 Jan van Kessel, page...
Woestijne. De boer die sterft en andere verhalen (anthology, 1973) Jef Geeraerts (essay, 1973) Het proza 1966-1971 (essay, 1973) Jan Walraevens (essay...
Balthasar. In 1697-98 he had a registered pupil by the name of Peeter Geeraerts. He died in Antwerp. Jan Baptist Huysman was a landscape artist. His work...
Louis Paul Boon. Other contemporary authors are Ward Ruyslinck and Jef Geeraerts, Patrick Conrad, Kristien Hemmerechts, Eric de Kuyper, Stefan Hertmans...
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