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Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 August 1862
- Died
- 6 May 1949, 5 May 1949
- Place of birth
- Ghent
- Place of death
- Nice
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Maurice
- Family name
- Maeterlinck
- Spouse
- Renée Dahon
- Sibling
- Marie Maeterlinck
- Movement
- Symbolism
- Genre
- philosophical fable
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Occupation
- writer, poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, librettist, translator, jurist, natural philosopher
- Position held
- president
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Native language
- French
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
- birth name
- Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, ProDetLit, Literair Gent
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Ghent University, Society of Jesus, Sint-Barbaracollege
- employer
- La Jeune Belgique
- end of work period
- 1949
- has works in the collection
- Royal Library of Belgium, print collection of the national Library of BAnQ
- has written for
- La Jeune Belgique
- interested in
- German idealism
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises, Académie des gastronomes, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
- name in native language
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- noble title
- count
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- Intruder, The Blind, Interior, The Blue Bird, Serres Chaudes, Pelléas and Mélisande, Princess Maleine, Q16655370, Q16303604, The Death of Tintagiles, Q16303559, The Treasure of the Humble
- place of burial
- Palais Maeterlinck
- start of work period
- 1888
- topic's main category
- Category:Maurice Maeterlinck
- unmarried partner
- Georgette Leblanc
- writing language
- French
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