August Snieders was a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 journalist and writer. He started his career in
's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper

Newspaper

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 Het Handelsblad, of which he was head editor from 1849 until 1899. Under his management Het Handelsblad became the most important Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 newspaper and he himself the most authoritative Flemish journalist of the nineteenth century. He was a sound supporter of the catholic

Catholic

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and Flemish ideals in Belgium. He was a brother of Jan Renier Snieders

Jan Renier Snieders

Jan Renier Snieders , a brother of August Snieders, was a Flemish writer. He studied medicine in Leuven, and in 1838 he settled as a physician in Turnhout, where he did much to promote literature and for which reason he founded the society De Dageraad...

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Source

• G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985).