Olivier de Wree
{{Short description|Flemish writer and politician}}
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Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), pen name Latinized as Olivarius Vredius, was a Neo-Latin poet and historian from the Habsburg Netherlands.
Life
Born in Bruges on 28 September 1596, De Wree was educated at Jesuit schools there and at Douai. After trying his vocation in the Jesuit novitiate, he studied at the University of Douai, graduating Licentiate of Laws.Aug. Vander Meersch, "De Wrée, Olivier", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, [https://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2047.pdf vol. 6] (Brussels, 1878), 22-24. He went on to become a member of the city council of Bruges, serving as alderman, treasurer and mayor. At the expiry of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 he was instrumental in putting the city into a state of preparedness to prevent Dutch incursions into the County of Flanders.
He induced the printer Jan Baptist van den Kerchove to relocate from Ghent to Bruges.{{Cite journal|author=Antoon Viaene |title=Oude boekdrukkunst te Brugge |journal=West-Vlaanderen |volume=9 |year=1960 |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_vla016196001_01/_vla016196001_01_0056.php|page=163}} Kerchove, whose father Jan had printed De Wree's early poems, was granted the freedom of the city and registered with the guild of booksellers in 1639.{{Cite journal|title=Van renaissance naar barok: De Brugse drukkunst tijdens de 17de eeuw |author=Jean Luc Meulemeester |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_vla016199401_01/_vla016199401_01_0143.php |journal=Vlaanderen |volume=43 |year=1994 |pages=138–139}}
De Wree died in Bruges on 21 March 1652.
Works
- Den oorspronck, ende voort-ganck der Carmeliten ofte onse L. Vrovwe-broeders, ende des H. Scapuliers (Ghent, Jan van den Kerchove, 1624).[https://books.google.com/books?id=_rcTAAAAQAAJ Carmeliten] on Google Books.
- Venus-ban (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel, 1625).[https://books.google.com/books?id=fTIUAAAAQAAJ Venus-ban] on Google Books.
- De vermaerde oorlogh-stucken vanden wonderdadighen velt-heer Carel de Longueval (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel, 1625).[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3BOAAAAcAAJ De vermaerde oorlogh-stucken] on Google Books.
- Sigilla comitum Flandriae (Bruges, Jan Baptist van den Kerchove, 1639).[https://books.google.com/books?id=6RxUAAAAcAAJ Sigilla comitum] on Google Books.
- Historiae Flandriae christianae (1640)
- Genealogia Comitum Flandriae (2 vols, Bruges, Jan Baptist van den Kerchove, 1642–1643).[https://books.google.com/books?id=Md5DAAAAcAAJ Vol. 1] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=PVVDAAAAcAAJ vol. 2] on Google Books.
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Category:17th-century historians from the Holy Roman Empire
Category:17th-century writers in Latin
Category:Poets from the Spanish Netherlands