{{Short description|Medieval Flemish poet}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2010}} thumb|Hein van Aken dreaming of a rose. [[File:Archive-ugent-be-FB4F0A78-77C6-11E3-8848-A1CCD43445F2 DS-31 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Excerpt from "Die Rose". Written by Hein van Aken. Manufactured in the 14th century. Preserved in the University Library of Ghent.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Die Rose [fragm.][manuscript]|url=https://lib.ugent.be/viewer/archive.ugent.be:FB4F0A78-77C6-11E3-8848-A1CCD43445F2#?c=&m=&s=&cv=1&xywh=-277,0,6712,3747|access-date=2020-08-24|website=lib.ugent.be}}</ref>]] '''Hein van Aken''', also called '''Hendrik van Aken''' or '''van Haken''', was the parish priest in Korbeek-Lo, between Leuven and Brussels. He was born in Brussels, probably in the thirteenth century. He translated the ''Roman de la Rose'' by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun to Dutch, with the title ''Het Bouc van der Rosen''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dbnl.org/tekst/aken002ever02_01/aken002ever02_01_0001.php|title=Hein van Aken, Die Rose van Heinric van Aken · dbnl|first=|last=DBNL|website=DBNL|accessdate=27 January 2018}}</ref> Hein's translation, also commonly called ''Die Rose'', was widespread. This is notable due to the many manuscripts and excerpts that are still preserved, for example in the University Library of Ghent.<ref name=":0" />
Hein van Aken could also be the author of the ''Roman van Heinric and Margriete van Limborch'', which was started in 1291 and completed in 1318. It is a courtly adventure novel in twelve books, which deliberately imitates the ''Aeneid'' epic by Virgil.<ref>Lieve de Wachter, ''Een literair-historisch onderzoek naar de effecten van ontleningen op de compositie en de zingeving van de Roman van Heinric en Margriete van Limborch''. Leuven 1998.</ref> The manuscript is held at Leiden University Libraries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1595077 |title=Digital version of Composite manuscript, two parts (Dutch): 1. (ff. 1-120) Roman van Heinric ende Margriete van Limborch / Heinric van Aken. - 2. (ff. 121-182) Roman van Walewein / Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, LTK 195 |publisher=Leiden University Libraries |access-date=2024-04-10}}</ref>
He is probably also the poet of a Dutch reworking of the French ''Ordene de chevalerie''. With less reason, some also attribute the ''Natuurkunde van het Geheel-al'' to him, but a poem by him must be kept in the Comburger manuscript.
In the ''Leeckenspeigel'', some work by him has been intertwined, amongst others. His rhymed essay ''Over de Dichtkunst'' (''On Poetry''), which has been called remarkable by reviewers{{Which|date=January 2010}} because of the common sense that prevails in it.
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==Sources== {{BWN|article=Hendrik of Hein van Aken|url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/aa__001biog01_01/aa__001biog01_01_0184.htm}}
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