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Tryphon

I have just been to visit what remains of TRYPHON BEKAERT'S workshop. Hardly any of the original workshop is left in what exists today: just a piece of the wall (see photos) that can be seen from Avenue Gustave Demey, a Brussels street in the district of Auderghem. The painted workshop logo (such signs have all but disappeared in Belgium today) remains intact, although today it is partially obscured by a warehouse. The name – which inspired Hergé as he thought up the original French name (Tryphon Tournesol) for Professor Cuthbert Calculus – of Brussels carpenter TRYPHON BEKAERT, can be read inside the building.


TRYPHON BEKAERT died on 19 February 1999 at the ripe old age of 93.
Professor Hector Alembick (King Ottokar's Sceptre), real-life scientist Professor Auguste Piccard (inventor of the stratospheric hot-air balloon), Paul Eydt (a slightly deaf colleague at Le Vingtième Siècle) and Tryphon Bekaert (the Brussels carpenter), all provided Hergé with inspiration as he created the character of Professor Calculus.


Thanks to Yves Debry and Manu Bouvy
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