Conscience

Asteroid Number 12524
Discovered April 25, 1998 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla Observatory/European Southern Observatory

Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883) was a founder of Flemish literature. Although he started writing in French, he soon changed to Flemish. In 1838 he published the historical novel De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (“The Lion of Flanders”), which describes the fourteenth-century battle between the Flemish and French.