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Louis Joseph Alvin (1806–1887)
Alvin, Louis Joseph (äl-va
‘). A Belgian poet and art critic (1806–87); became secretary (1830), then chief, of a department in the ministry of public instruction, member of the Belgian Academy in 1845, and chief librarian of the royal library in Brussels in 1850. Among his works are: ‘Sardanapalus,’ a tragedy (1834); ‘The Anonymous Pamphleteer,’ a comedy (1835); ‘Re-Contemplations’ (1856), a satirical imitation of the romantic style.