Max Rooses

Who was Max Rooses?

Max Rooses was a Belgian writer, literature critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp.

Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège to study philosophy and literature. From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the Koninklijk Athenaeum in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated in literature at the University of Liège. In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur, and in 1866 in Ghent. Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.