65 + 30 Centimes 1952 - August Vermeylen


65 + 30 Centimes 1952 - August Vermeylen
Added by Bart Perdieus
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 65 + 30 Centimes
Catalog code (Michel) BE 941
Catalog code Stamp Number BE B515 Yvert et Tellier BE 892 Stanley Gibbons BE 1410 AFA number BE 958 Belgium BE 892 Unificato BE 892
Stamp colour purple violet
Stamp use Semi Postal stamp
Print run 118.899
Issue date 05/11/1952
Designer Jean Malvaux
Print technique photogravure
Perforation 11 1/2
Height 39.00 mm
Width 28.00 mm
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