I never met him in person, but his picture in the Gallery of Emeritus Professor at the School of Education called my attention due to his typical Belgian name. I started searching for information about him and his life to construct a kind of biography. This incomplete and modest reconstruction of his accomplishments shows a model of language teaching. It is also an example for the concept of university in times of globalization, well understood to intercultural interferences and the philological connotation: I hope that this reconstruction, not hagiographic but deeply humanistic, serves both as a rescue effort considering the past and as a useful tool while looking into the future. ; Nunca lo conocí, pero su foto entre los eméritos en el Auditorio de la Facultad de Educación me picó la curiosidad: a base de entrevistas y lecturas confeccioné una biografía de un personaje cuya modesta e incompleta semblanza quizá incite a reflexionar sobre un modelo de profesorado y además sugiere, ojalá, que no solo en este caso, por la enseñanza de un idioma, sino por lo universitario bien entendido en tiempos de globalización, conviene tener una mente abierta a la interferencia cultural, al matiz filológico: confío que esta reconstrucción, no hagiográfico sino profundamente humanista, tenga valor de rescate, hacia el pasado y tenga utilidad, hacia el futuro.