Jean Stecher

Auguste Jean Stecher (1820–1909) was a Belgian literary historian and literary critic, sometimes writing under the pen name Lieven Everwyn, who was a professor at Ghent University and University of Liège and a contributor to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique.

His magnum opus was a 4-volume edition of the works of Jean Lemaire de Belges.

Stecher was born in Ghent on 11 October 1820.

He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 8 May 1876 and a full member on 9 May 1881.

[2] Stecher died in Liège on 3 September 1909.