Belgium

22May

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Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hugo Ryckeboer, dialectologist

Hugo Ryckeboer ‑ a Belgian West Flemish dialectologist who specialized in French Flemish dialects – died of Covid-19 on 21 May 2020. Ryckeboer was born in Veurne and grew up in Izenberge. After doing secondary education in Veurne (1948-1954), he studied Germaanse filologie at universities of KU Leuven and Ghent University between 1954 and 1959. Ryckeboer was a highschool teacher until 1970. After that he did research work at the (now called), Meertens Institute. He was involved with making Atlas van de Nederlandse Klankontwikkeling (ANKO), and was responsible for the Flemish language area. In 1972 Ryckeboer became editor at the Woordenboek van de Vlaamse Dialecten. He did research into dialects in French Flanders with a tape recorder. Between 1976 and 1984 he worked at th...

10May

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Marc Engels, film sound engineer

Marc Engels –a Belgian film sound engineer who won the César Award for Best Sound in 2017 for his work on The Odyssey ‑ died of COVID-19 on 9 April 2020. His filmography includes Calvaire (2004), Komma (2006), Ex Drummer (2007) Outside the Law (2010), The Pack (2010), Largo Winch II (2011), A Happy Event (2011), Möbius (2013) À toute épreuve (2014), Prêt à tout (2014) Waste Land (2014), I'm Dead but I Have Friends (2015), Our Futures (2015), After Love (2016), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2016) and The Odyssey (2016). He won César Award for Best Sound for The Odyssey (2017) and was nominated for Magritte Award for Best Sound for I'm Dead but I Have Friends (2016).

2May

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Belgium, Medics, Profiles

Luc Couvreur, General Practitioner

Luc Couvreur – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner in Lendelede, Belgium – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Couvreur was 74 years old. Source: Medscape Please help us in adding details.

28Apr

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Henri Kichka, holocaust survivor

Henri Kichka a Belgian writer and Holocaust survivor who was one of the leading figures in Holocaust education in Belgium died on 25 April 2020 at the age of 94 in Brussels as a result of COVID-19. Kichka was the only member of his family to have survived the deportation of Belgian Jews to camps in Central and Eastern Europe. He began speaking on the importance of the memory of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis in the 1980s and spoke widely on his experiences to school audience. In 2005, published his autobiography, Une adolescence perdue dans la nuit des camps, prefaced by Serge Klarsfeld. He is the father of cartoonist Michel Kichka. Henri Kichka was born in Brussels, Belgium on 14 April 1926 into a Jewish family which had emigrated from Poland. His father, Josek ...

22Apr

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Murtaza Mawji, Patient Liaisor

Murtaza Mawji – a Patient Liaisor at CHU Ambroise Pare & SHAPE HealthCare Facility, Mons, Belgium – passed away on 21 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Mawji was 69 years old. Source: La Province Please help us in adding details.

Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

5Apr

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Philippe Bodson, businessman & politician

Philippe André Eugène, Baron Bodson, a Belgian businessman and politician who served in the Belgian Senate from 1999 to 2003, died from Covid-19 on 4 April 2020. Bodson graduated as civil engineer at the University of Liège (ULg) and obtained a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) Bodson started his career at McKinsey in Paris where he worked for three years. He then worked for four years for the Daus Bank in Germany and the United States. In 1977, he started working for Glaverbel, where he would be the CEO from 1980 until 1989. From September 1989 until December 1998, he was a non-executive member of the board of directors of Fortis. From 1999 until 2003, he was a senator in the Belgian Senate for the Mouvement reformateur. F...

5Apr

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Marcel Moreau, writer

Marcel Moreau - a fancophone Belgian writer – died on 4 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Moreau was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage, in the Hainaut Province, into a working class environment in which there was, as he put it himself, a pure cultural void, a total absence of any cultural reference point”. He lost his father at the age of fifteen, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant’s assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir. In 1963 he published his first novel, Quintes, notably praised by Simone de Beauvoir. Considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic style, he was the author of a consider...

27Mar

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Isaura Castermans, Nurse

Isaura Castermans, the 30-year-old nurse who worked at the Prince Park Residence nursing home in Genk, died from complications related to the coronavirus. “Isaura was our only child”, said her parents. Like the rest of the healthcare staff, Isaura Castermans was at the forefront of the country’s fight against the covid-19 epidemic. She began to feel bad on March 24 after a long day spent with confined residents of the nursing home. A kind of cold with mild breathing problems. The next day, she contacted her doctor who made an appointment with her. But, on March 26, the young woman collapsed in her apartment. The disease reached his heart, leaving him no chance. Her partner, a final year medical student, tried to revive her before the paramedics took over. “I was not allowe...