Paul Hamelius or Hamélius (1868–1922) was a Belgian philologist who produced the two-volume Early English Text Society edition of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1919, 1923).
Hamelius was born on 26 April 1868 in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, where his father, originally from Luxembourg, was stationed as a military doctor.
After returning to Belgium he trained as a teacher, and taught at secondary schools (athénées) in Tournai, Charleroi and Ixelles.
[1] In 1904 he became professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Liège, giving his inaugural lecture on 11 November.
His article "La littérature des proscrits en Angleterre" (on two pieces of 14th-century outlaw literature) appeared in the first issue of the flagship Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire.