Isidoor Teirlinck


Isidoor Teirlinck was a Belgian writer. He is best known for his work on folklore.
Isidoor Teirlinck went to school in Lier. He married with Oda van Nieuwenhove and he was the father of the writer Herman Teirlinck. He became a teacher and taught in Serskamp, Drogenbos, Sint-Joost-ten-Node, and from 1875 onwards, he was teacher in mathematics and physics in Brussels. He wrote several books, together with his brother-in-law Reimond Stijns, as Teirlinck-Stijns. Their most famous novel was Arm Vlaanderen, which they published in 1884.