Auguste Joseph Duvivier (12 December 1772 – 1 July 1846) was a Belgian liberal politician and

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Biography

Duvivier was born in

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on 12 December 1772. He had two brothers, Vincent Duvivier and Ignace Louis Duvivier, who also served in the military. Auguste Duvivier studied medicine and graduated from the University of Leuven. He then pursued a specialization in

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. He did not fully practice medicine, but was professor of natural history at the Central School of Jemmape in 1798. He then made a career in administration under the Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Charles Poplimont, "La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique, Volume 4", 1866

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1846 deaths 1772 births 19th-century Belgian politicians People from Mons, Belgium Old University of Leuven alumni Ministers of finance of Belgium Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) {{Belgium-mayor-stub