Léonard Willems

Léonard Willems (1864–1938) was a Flemish philologist from Brussels, Belgium, who was active in academic circles in Ghent.

He was educated in the classics by his father and at the Athénée royal de Bruxelles.

After a few terms at Bonn University studying Germanic philology (including Gothic, Old English and Middle Dutch), he matriculated at the University of Ghent, where he took Henri Pirenne's courses on historical criticism and Paul Fredericq's on Dutch literature while studying for a law degree.

[1] He published numerous articles on Flemish literary history in journals, conference proceedings, and the Biographie Nationale de Belgique.

[1] His central preoccupation was the dating, composition, influences and redaction of Van den vos Reynaerde (the Dutch version of Reynard the Fox).