Author. He was a prolific Belgian writer, novelist, essayist, art critic, draftsman, and educator, whose work was mainly written in the Dutch and French languages. He was born in the city of Antwerp, in the Flanders Region of Belgium in 1893. He was educated locally and later went onto a prominent business and writing career. In 1915, he wrote his first work, the satirical comedy, "The War Of The Cow." In 1919, he founded the "Lumiere" magazine and its association of the same name with the likes of benefactors such as Jos Albert, Ferdinand Buyle, Bob Claessens, Alice Frey, A. Henneuse, W. Hollemans, Joris Minne, Walter Stevens, Frank Van den Wyngaert, and Henri Van Straten. The "Lumiere" magazine and its association were created for the promotion of the contemporary art movement, and also partly in response to World War I, advocating pacifism. The "Lumiere" magazine and its association ended after twenty-one years of service in 1940. He had served both as "Lumiere" magazine Director and Publisher during those years. During this time, he had also served as a Board Secretary at the Public Social Welfare Center of Antwerp and was a Founder and Director of the School of Arts and Crafts beginning in 1926. During the 1950s he also organized an annual dance festival for the people of Antwerp, Belgium. In 1968, he was a member of the cross-arts team that co-founded and created the Christophe Plantin Prize, a Belgian civilian prize, intended to reward a Belgian citizen who resides abroad, who has made significant contributions to cultural, artistic or scientific activities. Some notable people who have received this great honour include, Dr. Baron Ludo van Bogaert, a doctor Hugo van Kuyck, an architect, Maurits Naessens, a banker, and OJ Van de Perre, an industrialist. He was also the first to dedicate a monograph to the Mechelen painter and sculptor Rik Wouters who passed away in 1916. Besides, his satirical comedy, "The War Of The Cow" (1915), and the "Lumiere" magazine (1919-1940), his other 100 plus works over the years included, "La Conjuration des chats" (1920), "La Gravrue Sur Bois Moderne De L'Occident" (1928), "Guillaume le Taciturne" (1941), "James Ensor" (1947), "Memories from the Art Life 1918-1940, Volume 1" (1952), "Rembrandt et son temps" (1953), "Curiosities of the Antwerp Public Assistance Commission" (1955), "Rik Wouters" (1962), "Nouvelle Histoire de Belgique" (1971), "Masereel" (1975), and "Le petit Rubens et son temps" (1977). His many honours include being named a Member of the Institut de France, a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a Member of Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. He passed away in Antwerp, Belgium on September 15, 1988, at the age of 94, and was buried in the Antwerpen Schoonselhof Communal Cemetery in that city. In 2007, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage in Antwerp, Belgium, acquired the Roger Avermaete Library. The Christoffel Plantin Prize which he founded in 1968, was awarded for the forty-fourth time, some twenty-seven years after his death in 2015.