Jean-Auguste Stecher

Auguste Jean Stecher (1820–1909) was a Belgian literary historian and literary critic, sometimes writing under the pen name Lieven Everwyn, who was a professor at Ghent University and University of Liège 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.

Stecher died in Liège on 3 September 1909.

Works As author (as Lieven Everwyn), Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde (Ghent, 1845) (as Lieven Everwyn), De eerste Fransche Revolutie (Ghent, 1848) Flamands et Wallons (Liège, 1859) Étude sur les proverbes (Liège, 1861) Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)

As editor Oeuvres de Jean Lemaire de Belges (4 vols., Leuven, 1882-1891)

As translator Hendrik Conscience, La Guerre des Paysans (2 vols., Liège, 1853)

Articles "Le Drame réaliste au Moyen Age", Revue de Belgique, vol. 34 (1880)