Isidoor Teirlinck was a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 writer. He is best known for his work on folklore

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

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Isidoor Teirlinck went to school in Lier

Lier, Belgium

Lier is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the city of Lier proper and the village of Koningshooikt. On January 1, 2010 Lier had a total population of 33,930. The total area is 49.70 km² which gives a population density of 669 inhabitants per...

. He married with Oda van Nieuwenhove and he was the father of the writer Herman Teirlinck

Herman Teirlinck

Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879- Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967, was a Belgian writer. He was the fifth child and only son of Isidoor Teirlinck and Oda van Nieuwenhove, who were both teachers in Brussels...

. He became a teacher and taught in Serskamp, Drogenbos

Drogenbos

Drogenbos is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality only comprises the town of Drogenbos proper. On January 1, 2006 Drogenbos had a total population of 4,876. The total area is 2.49 km² which gives a population density of 1,957 inhabitants per...

, Sint-Joost-ten-Node, and from 1875 onwards he was teacher in mathematics and physics in Brussels

Brussels

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. He wrote several books, together with his brother-in-law Reimond Stijns

Reimond Stijns

Reimond Stijns was a Belgian writer.He started his professional career as a teacher in 1870, first in Bevere , and afterwards back in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. In 1883, he became study master, later teacher Dutch at the Koninklijk athenaeum in Brussels...

, as Teirlinck-Stijns. Their most famous novel was Arm Vlaanderen (E: Poor Flanders), which they published in 1884.

Source

• Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde, 1888–1891, F. Jos. van den Branden en J.G. Frederiks,
• Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid, 1941, K. ter Laan,
• De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs, 1985, G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse,
• Isidoor Teirlinck