Reimond Stijns

Reimond Stijns (10 May 1850, in Mullem – 12 December 1905, in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek) was a Belgian writer.

He started his professional career as a teacher in 1870, first in Bevere (Oudenaarde), and afterwards back in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek.

Initially as a writer, he worked together with his brother-in-law Isidoor Teirlinck, who was also a teacher in Brussels.

Together they published Arm Vlaanderen (E: Poor Flanders) in 1884, a political novel on the educational struggle between Belgian Catholics and liberals.

Reimond Stijns was the first naturalistic writer of Flanders, but his work was also still influenced by romanticism.