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1903 In Belgium
Events in the year 1903 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarchy of Belgium, Monarch: Leopold II of Belgium, Leopold II *Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer Events * 30 July-6 August – 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Brussels. * 15 August – German-Belgian railway convention signed. Publications * ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique'', vol. 17. * Henri Pirenne, ''Histoire de Belgique (book series), Histoire de Belgique'', vol. 2 * Max Rooses, ''Rubens' leven en werken'' * Joseph Van den Gheyn, ''Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique'', vol. 3. * Emile Vandervelde, ''L'Exode rural et le retour aux champs'' Art and architecture * Théo van Rysselberghe, ''The Reading'' Births * 8 June – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist (died 1987) * 14 July – Henricus Cockuyt, Olympic sprinter (died 1993) * 19 August - Gérard Devos, footballer (died 1972) Deaths * 19 June – Fernande de Cartier de Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Van Den Gheyn
Joseph Marie Martin Van den Gheyn (1854–1913) was a Belgian Jesuit, Bollandist and chief conservator of the Royal Library of Belgium. Life Van den Gheyn was born in Ghent on 24 May 1854, the son of Edouard Van den Gheyn, a professor of chemistry at Ghent University. He was educated at St Barbara's College in Ghent and entered the Jesuit noviciate in Drongen on 27 September 1871.Maurice Coens, "Van den Gheyn (Joseph Marie Martin)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 37(Brussels, 1971), 327-333. He developed a wide range of intellectual interests and published articles in numerous fields relating to language and culture. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1886. His brother was Canon Gabriel Van den Gheyn, guardian of the treasury of St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, who hid the central panels of the Ghent Altarpiece during the First World War. Joseph was assigned to the Bollandists in 1888, to research Greek and Eastern saints, and taught a course on Sanskrit at the Institut Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Alexis Brialmont
Henri-Alexis Brialmont (Venlo, 25 May 1821 – Brussels, 21 July 1903), nicknamed The Belgian Vauban after the French military architect, was a Belgian army officer, politician and writer of the 19th century, best known as a military architect and designer of fortifications. Brialmont qualified as an officer in the Belgian army engineers in 1843 and quickly rose up the ranks. He served as a staff officer, and later was given command of the district of the key port of Antwerp. He finished his careers as Inspector-General of the Army. Brialmont was also an active pamphleteer and political campaigner and lobbied through his career for reform and expansion of the Belgian military and was also involved in the foundation of the Congo Free State. Today, Brialmont is best known for the fortifications which he designed in Belgium and Romania and would influence another in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The fortifications he designed in Belgium at the end of the 1880s around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande De Cartier De Marchienne
Marguerite Yourcenar (, ; ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 190317 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Biography Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, as Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour and Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne. Her father was of French bourgeois descent, originating from French Flanders, and a wealthy landowner. Her mother, of Belgian nobility, died ten days after Marguerite's birth. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother, and adopted the surname Yourcenar as a pen name; in 1947, she also took it as her legal surname. Yourcenar's first novel, ''Alexis'', was published in 1929. She trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Devos
Gérard Devos (19 August 1903, Sint-Andries – 5 January 1972, Tielt) was a Belgium, Belgian football (soccer), football Striker (association football), striker. Career Devos started playing football with Cercle Brugge. He made his debut in a 5–1 loss against Standard Liège on 23 October 1921. He played most of his career for the green and black side. He was 7 times the team's top goal scorer, and he also has the Cercle Brugge#Most goals for Cercle Brugge, 8th most goals in the history of Cercle. Devos won the league title with Cercle in Belgian First Division 1926-27, 1927. His last match with Cercle was against Antwerp FC on 3 November 1929. Cercle lost 1–4. Devos ended his career with FC Eeklo, where he would also become manager. Devos appeared 9 times in the colours of Belgium national football team, Belgium. He was capped for the first time against France national football team, France on 11 April 1926. Belgium lost 4–3. Devos made one of the three Belgian goals. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henricus Cockuyt
Henricus Cockuyt (14 July 1903 – 3 December 1993) was a Belgian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres event at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al .... References External links * 1903 births 1993 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics Belgian male sprinters Olympic athletes for Belgium 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (, ; ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 190317 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Biography Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, as Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour and Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne. Her father was of Bourgeoisie#Haute Bourgeoisie, French bourgeois descent, originating from French Flanders, and a wealthy landowner. Her mother, of Belgian nobility, died ten days after Marguerite's birth. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother, and adopted the surname Yourcenar as a pen name; in 1947, she also took it as her lega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théo Van Rysselberghe
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian Neo-impressionism, neo-impressionist Painting, painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Biography Early years Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under the directorship of Jean-François Portaels. The North African paintings of Portaels had started an orientalist fashion in Belgium. Their impact would strongly influence the young Théo van Rysselberghe. Between 1882 and 1888, he made three trips to Morocco, staying there in total a year and a half. Age only eighteen, he had already participated at the Salon of Ghent, showing two portraits. Soon afterwards followed his ''Self-portrait with pipe'' (1880), painted in somber colours in the Belgian realistic tradition of the times. His ''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Van Rysselberghe The Reading 1903
Theo is a given name and a hypocorism. Greek origin Many names beginning with the root ''Theo-'' derive from the Ancient Greek word (), which means God, for example: *Feminine names: Thea, Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania, Theophano and Theoxena *Masculine names: Theodore, Theodoros/Theodorus, Theodosius, Theodotus, Theophanes, Theophilus, Theodoret and Theophylact Germanic origin Many other names beginning with "Theo-" do not necessarily derive from Greek, but rather the old Germanic "theud", meaning "people" or "folk". These names include: *Theobald, Theodahad, Theodard, Theodebert, Theodemir, and Theodoric People with the name Theo See Theo and Théo for a current alphabetical list of all people with the first name Theo or Théo in the English Wikipedia. Among better known people with this name are: *Theo Adam (1926–2019), German classical bass-baritone *Theo Albrecht (1922–2010), German entrepreneur and billionaire *Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012), Greek film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Vandervelde
Emile Vandervelde (25 January 1866 – 27 December 1938) was a Belgium, Belgian socialist politician. Nicknamed "the boss" (''le patron''), Vandervelde was a leading figure in the Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP) and in international socialism. Career Emile Auguste Vandervelde was born into a middle-class family in Ixelles, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium on 25 January 1866. Initially attracted by Liberal Party (Belgium), Liberal politics, Vandervelde entered the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels as a law student in 1881. However, he soon became interested in emerging socialism, socialist ideas and, in 1885, joined the small Workers' League of Ixelles (''Ligue Ouvrière d'Ixelles''). In 1886, he joined the newly formed Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP). He worked as an academic at the Free University. Vandervelde was active in Belgian Freemasonry and was a member of the Lodge ''Les Amis philanthropes'' du Grand Orient of Belgium, Grand Orient de Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Rooses
Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of Liège to study Philosophy and Literature. From 1860 until 1864 he was study master at the ''Koninklijk Athenaeum'' (Royal Athenaeum) in Antwerp, and in the meantime he graduated with a degree in Literature from the University of Liège. In 1864, he became teacher of Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum of Namur, and in 1866 in Ghent. Finally on 8 July 1876 he was appointed Director of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Bibliography * ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schildersschole'' (1873) – a history of the Antwerp school of painting * ''Levensschets van Jan Frans Willems'' (1874) – a biography of Jan Frans Willems * ''Schetsenboek'' (1877) – sketchbook * ''Over de Alpen'' (1880) * ''Christophe Plantin'' (1882) * ''Correspondance de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Belgium covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.8 million; its population density of ranks List of countries and dependencies by population density, 22nd in the world and Area and population of European countries, sixth in Europe. The capital and Metropolitan areas in Belgium, largest metropolitan region is City of Brussels, Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex Federation, federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds. The country is divided into three highly autonomous Communities, regions and language areas o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
