August Vermeylen

August Vermeylen (12 May 1872, in Brussels – 10 January 1945, in Uccle) was a Belgian writer and literature critic.

In 1893 he founded the literary journal Van Nu en Straks (Of Today and Tomorrow).

In addition to many works of literary and art criticism, he wrote poetry and in 1906 a novel, De wandelende Jood (English: The Wandering Jew).

Politically, Vermeylen supported both the unitarian Belgian state (to the point of condemning the Flemish Pro-German activists during World War I) and an equal status for the Dutch language in that state.

In 1930, he became the first rector of the newly Dutchified Flemish Universiteit Gent (English: Ghent University).