Henry Moeller
Henry Moeller (1852–1918) was a Belgian priest and literary critic, who for twenty years edited the cultural review Durendal. Life Moeller was born in Leuven on 12 July 1852, the sixth son of Professor Jean Moeller and Marie-Sabine Durst. One of his brothers, Charles, also went on to become a professor in Leuven; another died serving with the Papal Zouaves. Henry attended the Josephite secondary school in Leuven and the Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, and graduated Candidate of Philosophy and Letters from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1871. He then entered the Redemptorist novitiate, but left the order in 1875. In 1877 he graduated Licentiate in Philosophy from Leuven, together with Désiré-Joseph Mercier. He was ordained to the priesthood the same year. Moeller entered Maredsous Priory in November 1877, and spent some time at Erdington Priory, in Birmingham, but in May 1884 he was refused permission to make solemn profession as a Benedictine. In July 1885 an essay by Moeller, "Etude philosophique sur le bonheur", appeared in Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique. Thereafter he focused on his literary endeavours, which combined Neo-scholasticism and Symbolism, while serving as a parish priest and as chaplain to the school