Max Rooses
Belgian writer, art historian, art critic and museum curator
About Max Rooses
Lived 1839 – 1914 (aged 75). Max Rooses was a Belgian writer, art historian, art critic, literary critic, curator and journalist.
Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp.
Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège to study Philosophy and Literature. From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the Koninklijk Athenaeum (Royal Athenaeum) in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated with a degree in Literature from the University of Liège. In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur, and in 1866 in Ghent. Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.
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Belgian writer, art historian, art critic and museum curator (1839-1914)
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Max Rooses was born on 10 February 1839 in Antwerp.
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Max Rooses died on 15 July 1914 in Antwerp.
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Max Rooses was a writer, art historian, art critic, literary critic, curator and journalist.
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Max Rooses was Belgian.
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