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Firmin Van Den Bosch
Josephus Maria Remisius Firminus van den Bosch, better known as Firmin van den Bosch (1864–1949) was a Belgian magistrate and writer. Life Van den Bosch was born in Peer, Belgium, on 19 December 1864. His mother died a few weeks after his birth and he was raised by an aunt and his maternal grandfather in Bree.Françoise Châtelain, "Van den Bosch, Firmin", '' Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 2(Brussels, 1990), 354-356. He was educated at the junior seminary in Sint-Truiden and studied Philosophy at the Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur preparatory to undertaking a law degree at Ghent University. As a student in Namur he discovered modern poetry in ''La Jeune Belgique'' and began writing. He became friends with Max Waller. As a student in Ghent he was involved in confrontations between Catholic students and anticlerical professors, and was rusticated. He began writing for ''L'Impartial de Gand'', a newspaper that favoured social reform. In 1886, he began writing fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peer, Belgium
Peer () is a city and municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Peer had a total population of 15,810. The total area is 86.95 km² which gives a population density of 182 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Peer, Grote-Brogel, Kleine-Brogel, Wauberg, Erpekom and Wijchmaal. Peer is the site of a famous annual blues music festival held in July. History Peer is the birth place of the composer Armand Preud'homme. From 1990 to 2018 the Armand Preud'homme Museum remembered to his life and work. The village Grote Brogel, part of Peer, claims to be the birthplace of Pieter Bruegel. The Bruegel Foundation was also founded in Peer to research the history of Peer and Pieter Bruegel. Kleine Brogel, a village that is a part of Peer, includes Kleine Brogel Air Base. Rumours that American nuclear weapons under the NATO nuclear sharing program were stationed at Kleine Brogel have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Le Sage D'Hauteroche D'Hulst
Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst. Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst (born at Paris, 10 October 1841; died there, 6 November 1896) was a French Roman Catholic priest, writer, and orator. He was the founder of the Institut Catholique de Paris. Life After a course in the Collège Stanislas, he entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice and later proceeded to Rome to finish his ecclesiastical studies. There he obtained the doctorate in divinity. On his return he was for some time employed on the mission as curate in the populous parish of St. Ambrose. During the war of 1870 he became a volunteer chaplain in the army. In 1873 Cardinal Guibert called him to take part in the administration of the diocese, but he was engaged principally in founding and organizing the free Catholic University (then the Université Catholique de Paris), which the bishops opened at Paris after the passage of the law of 12 July 1875, allowing liberty of higher education. He became its rector in 1880 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armistice Of Salonica
The Armistice of Salonica (also known as the Armistice of Thessalonica) was signed on 29 September 1918 between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers in Thessaloniki. The convention followed a request by the Bulgarian government for a ceasefire on 24 September. Surrender The armistice effectively ended Bulgaria's participation in World War I on the side of the Central Powers and came into effect on the Bulgarian Front at noon on 30 September. The armistice regulated the demobilization and the disarmament of the Bulgarian armed forces. The signatories were, for the Allies, French General Louis Franchet d'Espérey, commander of the Allied Army of the Orient, and a commission appointed by the Bulgarian government, which was composed of General Ivan Lukov (member of the Bulgarian Army headquarters), Andrey Lyapchev (cabinet member) and Simeon Radev (diplomat). Its importance was described by German Emperor Wilhelm II in his telegram to Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I: "Disgraceful! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Occupation Of Belgium During World War I
The German occupation of Belgium (french: link=no, Occupation allemande, nl, Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Beginning in August 1914 with the invasion of neutral Belgium, the country was almost completely overrun by German troops before the winter of the same year as the Allied forces withdrew westwards. The Belgian government went into exile, while King Albert I and the Belgian Army continued to fight on a section of the Western Front. Under the German military, Belgium was divided into three separate administrative zones. The majority of the country fell within the General Government, a formal occupation administration ruled by a German general, while the others, closer to the front line, came under more repressive direct military rule. The German occupation coincided with a widespread economic collapse in Belgium with shortages and widespread unemployment, but also with a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Courts Of Egypt
The Mixed Courts of Egypt ( ar, المحاكم المختلطة, transliterated: ''Al-Maḥākim al-Mukhṭaliṭah'', french: Tribunaux Mixtes d'Egypte) were founded in October 1875 by the Khedive Isma'il Pasha. Designed by Nubar Nubarian Pasha to be part of the Khedive's great plans for Egypt, the Mixed Courts led to a radical reform of Egypt's chaotic nineteenth century legal system, where Consular courts competed with Government tribunals and religious courts for jurisdiction. The completion of the Suez Canal (1869) and the development of the cotton trade had attracted many foreign interests and foreign nationals to Egypt. The Mixed Courts had Codes, based on a civil law format inspired by the French Civil Code and British common law but with significant Islamic and local principles. Without suppressing the Consular court Consular courts were law courts established by foreign powers in countries where they had extraterritorial rights. They were presided over by consular of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Gezelle
Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect. Life Gezelle was born in Bruges in the province of West Flanders to Monica Devrieze and Pieter Jan Gezelle, a gardener. The Flemish writer Stijn Streuvels (Frank Lateur) was a nephew of his. Gezelle was ordained a priest in 1854, and worked as a teacher at the Minor Seminary, Roeselare. He was always interested in all things English and became the chaplain to the . He died there in a small room, where it is still forbidden to enter. There is a museum of his works close by and also a small bar named after him. He tried to develop an independent Flemish language, more or less separate from the general Dutch language, which had certain more " Hollandic" aspects. The Dutch he used in his poems was heavily influenced by the local West Flemish dialect. His works are often insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durendal (magazine)
''Durendal'' was a cultural and literary review published in Belgium from January 1894 to July 1914, when publication was interrupted by the First World War. A final commemorative issue appeared in 1921. It was founded by the politician Henry Carton de Wiart, the novelist Pol Demade, and the priest and literary critic Henry Moeller, who was to be the main editor. Founded by progressive Catholics directly influenced by the Catholic literary revival in France, ''Durendal'' also published non-Catholic writers. Although free of any aesthetic partisanship, the review rapidly tended to Idealism and Symbolism, with Pre-Raphaelite and Wagnerian Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ... influences. In 1899–1900, the review sponsored a "Salon of Religious Art". Further reading Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Avenir Social
''L'Avenir Social'' was a French orphanage open from 1906 to 1922 and known for the libertarian (anarchist) philosophy of its founder, Madeleine Vernet. History With her family's support, Madeleine Vernet opened the orphanage on May 1, 1906, in Neuilly-Plaisance. It quickly expanded to a second building in August and by April 1908, moved to Épône, whose local population rejected Vernet's work. The orphanage had 24 boarders its first year, followed by 30 the next year, about more than half boys. During World War I, Vernet was forced to leave Épône for Etretat until the Western Front stabilized. In January 1923, the Communist majority on the orphanage's board ousted Vernet, who was not a Communist, as its leader. The orphanage moved to Mitry-Mory in June 1923 and was overtaken by the Seine departmental union in 1925, whereupon it again relocated to La Villette-aux-Aulnes as ''L'Orphelinat Ouvrier''. It closed in 1938. Administration The orphanage was funded through V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democrat
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ideas and traditional Christian values, incorporating social justice and the social teachings espoused by the Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Pentecostal, and other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. After World War II, Catholic and Protestant movements of neo-scholasticism and the Social Gospel shaped Christian democracy. On the traditional left-right political spectrum Christian Democracy has been difficult to pinpoint as Christian democrats rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, but simultaneously defended private property rights against excessive state intervention. This has meant that Christian Democracy has historically been considered centre left o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Congress In Mechelen
The Malines Congresses were a series of Catholic Congresses held in Mechelen (french: Malines), Belgium, with the purpose of bringing together Catholics with leading roles in all walks of life, on the model of the German ''Katholikentage''.M. Defourny, ''Les Congrès Catholiques en Belgique'' (Leuven, 1908On Internet Archive The first three, held in 1863, 1864 and 1867, had considerable cultural, social and political impact. They lay at the foundation of the future development of a Catholic Party in Belgian politics, as well as a nascent Social Catholicism.Carl Strikwerda, "Malines Congress", ''Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics: L-Z'', edited by Roy Palmer Domenico and Mark Y. Hanley (Greenwood Press, 2006), pp. 351-352. The first congress saw the establishment of the Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke, which shaped Belgian Gothic Revival architecture and art education. The main organiser of the first three congresses was Édouard Ducpétiaux, who died in 1868. They were ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pol Demade
Pol Demade (1863–1936) was a Belgian writer who also published under the pen name Jean Suis. Life Paul François Charles Demade was born to a French family living in Comines, Belgium, on 13 August 1863.Françoise Châtelain, "Demade, Paul François Charles, dit Pol", ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 2(Brussels, 1990), 119-121. He was educated at the Minor Seminary, Roeselare, where he became friends with Albrecht Rodenbach, and at the diocesan college in Kortrijk, before studying medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven. His interest in literature was sparked by reading Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and he began contributing to the society pages of ''Le Patriote'' under the pen name Jean Suis. His first novel, ''Religieuse, soeur Magdala'' (1891), was self published.Jean-Baptiste BaronianPol Demade, un petit maître belge du fantastique communication to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, 13 September 2003. He obtained a two-year s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste when publishing some of his books. Life Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family. His parents, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint and Marie-Francoise (née Le Nepvou de Carfort) were not financially secure and were supported by Marie's aunt, Mademoiselle de Kerinou. In attempt to gain wealth, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's father began an obsessive search for the lost treasure of the Knights of Malta, formerly known as the Knights Hospitaller, of which Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, a family ancestor, was the 16th-century Grand Master of the order. The treasure had reputedly been buried near Quintin during the French Revolution. Consequently, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint spent large sums of money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
