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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | August Vermeylen (1872 in Brussels – 1945 in Ukkel) was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the journal Van Nu en Straks (English: Today and Tomorrow). He studied history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and became a professor of literature and of art history at the ULB (1901–1923). In addition to many works of literary and art criticism, he wrote poetry and in 1906 a novel, De wandelende Jood (English: The Wandering Jew). A cultural organization, the Vermeylenfonds, was named after him. Politically, Vermeylen supported both the unitarian Belgian state (to the point of condemning the Flemish Pro-German activists during the first World War) and an equal status for the Dutch language in that state. From 1921 to his death he was a senator for the Belgian Labour Party. In 1930, he became the first rector of the newly Dutchified Flemish Universiteit Gent. In 1938, he became vice-president of the Senate. In 1940, he was removed from all his official functions by the German occupation force. |
| Face value | 2,50 Francs |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1674 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 823 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 1620 Stanley Gibbons BE 2267 AFA number BE 1688 Belgium BE 1620 Unificato BE 1620 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 3.500.000 |
| Issue date | 25/03/1972 |
| Designer | Isidoor Opsomer / J. Malvaux |
| Paper type | Stamp |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 35.00 mm |
| Width | 24.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
