Wenceslas Cobergher (1560 – 23 November 1634) sometimes called Wenzel Coebergher was a Flemish Renaissance architect engineer painter antiquarian numismatist and economist. Faded somewhat into the background as a painter he is chiefly remembered today as the man responsible for the draining of the Moëres on the Franco-Belgian border. He is also one of the fathers of the Flemish Baroque style of architecture in the Southern Netherlands.
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