Julius Hoste Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Julius Hoste Sr.

businessman, writer

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1848

Place of Birth: Tielt, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1933

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Julius Hoste Sr.
(Tielt, 23 January 1848 – Brussels, 28 March 1933), was a Belgian writer and businessman.
He is the father of Julius Hoste Jr. In 1888, he founded the moderate liberal Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
For the Flemish theatre in Brussels (KVS), he wrote several very successful historical plays, such as the De Brusselsche straatzanger (1883) and the De kleine patriot (1889).
He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels.