# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-vermeylen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:38:50.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-vermeylen"
name: "August Vermeylen"
slug: "august-vermeylen"
description: "August Vermeylen was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the literary journal Van Nu en Straks. He studied history at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and became a professor of literature and of art history at the ULB (1901–1923). In addition to many works of literary and art criticism, he wrote poetry and in 1906 a novel, De wandelende Jood. A cultural organization, the Vermeylenfonds, was named after him."
tagline: "Belgian writer, man of letters, art historian, professor and politician (1872-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AugustVermeylen2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-05-12"
deathDate: "1945-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.19
  momentum:             2.210884353741497
  historical:           10.07959066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "August Vermeylen"
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    title: "August Vermeylen"
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    title: "August Vermeylen"
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    title: "August Vermeylen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Vermeylen"
    title: "August Vermeylen"
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    title: "August Vermeylen"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump