August Vandekerkhove

Age of Aquarius

August Vandekerkhove was one of the first persons to coin the term, “the Age of Aquarius”, in a French magazine, “La Fronde” in late February 1890.

grave

Each year, on the afternoon of Palm Sunday, at 5 PM, people gather around his [August Vandekerkhove] grave at the cemetery of Flacé, rue Ambroise Paré, in Mâcon in France to remember him.

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https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/people/a/august-vandekerkhove/august-vandekerkhove.md

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3100584

Wikipedia

August Vandekerkhove (Wikipedia) August Vandekerkhove (Kanegem, 15 October 1838 – Mâcon, 24 March 1923) was a Belgian writer, art-painter and inventor. He wrote under the pseudonym S.U.Zanne. He started a movement he called Cosmosofie (Cosmosophy), which he claimed it to be the anti-thesis of Theosophy.