Jozef Van Hoorde

Jozef van Hoorde (12 October 1843, Ghent – 1 June 1916) was a Flemish writer. He first went to the local school (stadsschool) and then to high school at the Koninklijk Athenaeum (E:Royal Athenaeum) in Ghent.

In 1862, he became assistant teacher, but he resigned in 1866, and in 1867 became clerk, of the Gentschen Mercurius after he had been subeditor of the paper Commerce de Gand and an editor of Het Volksbelang. When the Flemish weekly Het Volksbelang was founded in 1867, by Julius Vuylsteke, he was one of the editors together with Julius Sabbe, Julius De Vigne, and Adolf Hoste. In 1870, he became an editor of the Gazette van Gent. He wrote contributions to several illustrated magazines and journals.