HIEL, EMMANUEL prose writer, was born at Dendermonde, Flanders, in May Hiels was one of the leaders of the Flemish movement in Belgium. For the 5oth anniversary of Belgian independence he wrote two cantatas Belgenland and Eer Belgenland. His efforts to counteract Walloon influence and to revive Flemish as a literature made him famous in Holland, and in 1874 a volume of his poems appeared in a collection of Dutch authors. His collected poetical works were published in three volumes at Rousselaere in 1885.