Charles Polydore de Mont

Charles Polydore de Mont or Pol de Mont (Wambeek, 15 April 1857 – 29 June 1931) was a Belgian writer and poet.

After his secondary education, in French, at Ninove, he went to the ''Klein seminarie'' in Mechelen. Here he wrote his first poems, which he published in one volume as ''Klimoprankske'' (1875). He studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he founded, together with Albrecht Rodenbach, ''Het Pennoen''. In 1880 he was awarded the Quinquennial Prize for Flemish Literature for his poems which were published in ''Gedichten''.

He started his professional career as a teacher at the ''Koninklijk Atheneum'' (E: Royal Atheneum ) in Antwerp. In 1904 he was appointed Director of the ''Museum of Fine Arts'' in Antwerp, and a year later he was one of the co-founders of the illustrated magazine ''De Vlaamse Gids''. In 1919, he resigned his position as Director of the museum because he had been accused of Activism during World War I. He became chief editor of the newspaper ''De Schelde'', where among his employees were Paul Van Ostaijen and Alice Nahon. Provided by Wikipedia