Jozef Van Hoorde

Who is Jozef Van Hoorde?

Jozef Van Hoorde was a Flemish writer. He first went to the local school and then to high school at the Koninklijk Athenaeum in Ghent.

In 1862, he became assistant teacher, but he resigned in 1866, and in 1867 became clerk, of the Gentschen Mercurius after he had been reviser of the paper Commerce de Gand and an editor of Het Volksbelang. When the Flemish weekly Het Volksbelang was founded in 1867, by Julius Vuylsteke, he was one of the editors together with Julius Sabbe, Julius De Vigne, and Adolf Hoste. In 1870, he moved to the redaction of the Gazette van Gent. He wrote contributions to several illustrated magazines and journals.