Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts (7 April 1814 – 3 November 1880), was a Belgian lawyer and
liberal politician.
Auguste Orts was a Lawyer,
magistrate
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, professor at the
Université libre de Bruxelles
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and
alderman
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of Brussels. He was
President
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of the
Belgian Chamber of Representatives
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from 19 July 1859 until 18 July 1860 and
Minister of State
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.
See also
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Liberal Party
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Sources
Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts* Mesdach de ter Kiele, in : ''Biographie Nationale'', Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XVI, 1901, kol. 334–342.
* Vanderkindere, L., L'Université de Bruxelles 1834–1884, Brussel, 1884, p. 183-184.
* De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (ed.), ''Le Parlement Belge 1831–1894. Données Biographiques'', Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, p. 447-448.
1814 births
1880 deaths
Ministers of state of Belgium
Politicians from Brussels
Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)
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