Editing Hendrik Conscience (section)

{{Short description|Belgian author}}
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 | name          = Hendrik Conscience
 | image         = Hendrik Conscience.jpg
 | caption       = Conscience, painted in 1870
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 | birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1812|12|03}}
 | birth_place   = [[Antwerp]], French Empire<br/><small>(modern [[Belgium]])</small>
 | death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1883|8|10|1812|12|03}}
 | death_place   = [[Ixelles]], Brussels, Belgium
 | resting_place = [[Schoonselhof cemetery]], Antwerp
 | occupation    = Soldier, revolutionary, writer, poet, novelist
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 | genre         = 
 | movement      = [[Romanticism]] 
 | notableworks  = ''[[De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (novel)|The Lion of Flanders]]''
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'''Henri '''('''Hendrik''')''' Conscience''' (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a [[Belgians|Belgian]] author. He is considered the pioneer of [[Dutch language|Dutch-language]] literature in [[Flanders]], writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government.{{sfn|Hermans|2014|p=162}} Conscience fought as a [[Belgian revolution]]ary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the [[Romanticism|Romanticist style]] popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his [[Romantic nationalism|romantic nationalist]] novel, ''[[De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (novel)|The Lion of Flanders]]'' (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 [[Battle of the Golden Spurs]] during the [[Franco-Flemish War]].

Over the course of his career, he published over 100 novels and novellas and achieved considerable popularity.{{sfn|Hermans|2014|p=162}} After his death, with the decline of romanticism, his works became less fashionable but are still considered as classics of [[Flemish literature]].{{sfn|Hermans|2014|p=162}}