- Achilles Mussche was born on August 12, 1896 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Christoffel Marlowe (1970), Zoeklicht (1960) and Vergeet niet te lezen (1955). He died on August 30, 1974 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium.
- His first collection of poems, "De twee vaderlanden" (The Two Fatherlands), was awarded the August Beernaert Prize in 1928 and the State Poetry Prize again in 1929. His work reflects a striving for humanism, a reconciliation between the chaotic, bleak reality and the human yearning to experience the eternally divine. In this sense, the early Mussche is perhaps more of a romantic than an expressionist.
- Mussche's work probably represents the final phase of a twentieth-century neo-realist (or post-expressionist) movement; he no longer participated in postmodernism.
- During the First World War, he studied to become a teacher; in 1918, he became a teacher with a bachelor's degree. He remained active as a Dutch teacher at the teacher training college, even during the Second World War, and was appointed education inspector in 1948.
- Mussche published a number of textbooks, including Dutch poetics, which were used as standard works for education: he was considered to have exceptional pedagogical skills.
- Mussche came from modest backgrounds: his parents were workers from a poor neighbourhood in Ghent, at that time a city of heavy industry and textile manufacturing.
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