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1831 In Belgium
Events in the year 1831 in Belgium. Incumbents :Monarch – Leopold I of Belgium, Leopold I (from 21 July) :Prime Minister of Belgium, Head of government – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache (27 February–10 March), Joseph Lebeau (10 March–24 July), Félix de Muelenaere (from 24 July) Events ;February * 3 February – Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, elected king of the Belgians but declined the honour.William Henry Overall, ''The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register'' (London, 1870), p. 76. * 5 February – Jan van Speyk explodes his gunboat in the port of Antwerp * 7 February – National Congress of Belgium, National Congress approves the Constitution of Belgium * 27 February – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache takes office as head of government ;March * 10 March – Joseph Lebeau replaces Etienne Constantin de Gerlache as head of government ;June * 26 June – At the London Conference of 1830, Conference of London the five great powers (Austria, Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Hasselt
The Battle of Hasselt was fought on 8 August 1831 during the Ten Days' Campaign. It was an important defeat for the outnumbered Belgian Army of the Meuse and a victory for the Dutch invasion force. Battle The Dutch planned to encircle the Belgians with three divisions with no option to retreat because doing so would leave the Dutch city Maastricht undefended for a possible Belgian counterattack. The Belgians, outnumbered and with little to no artillery, misled one of the Dutch divisions by spending too much time in attacking the small town of Kuringen just outside Hasselt and left a small force behind in Hasselt to buy some time and cover their retreat to Tongeren. During this retreat they were under constant attack of the chasing Dutch cavalry. At Kortessem the Belgians put up a few artillery guns and the Dutch ended the chase leaving the Meuse army in a state of chaos, the remaining rebels fled to Liège escaping the pocket the Dutch tried to enforce. The Dutch took about 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Delboeuf
Joseph Rémi Léopold Delbœuf (30 September 1831, Liège, Belgium – 14 August 1896, Bonn, Germany) was a Belgian experimental psychologist who studied visual illusions including his work on the Delboeuf illusion. He studied and taught philosophy, mathematics, and psychophysics. He published works across a diverse range of subjects including the curative effects of hypnotism. Early life and education Joseph Delboeuf was born in the French speaking town of Liège, Belgium. His father, a pewter craftsman, died early in Delboeuf’s life. He studied at the University of Liège, earning his PhD in philosophy in 1855, followed by physics and mathematics in 1858. He received a scholarship from the University of Bonn and continued his postdoctoral research under philosopher and mathematician Friedrich Ueberweg. In 1860, he began teaching Greek at l’Ecole Normale des Humanités de Liège. In 1863, he was given the post of Maitre de Conférences, which he only held for a few months b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Joseph Scohy
François-Joseph Scohy (1831–1881) was a Belgian military physician and archaeologist. Life Scohy was born in Gilly, Belgium, on 26 September 1831. He studied medicine and natural science at the Catholic University of Louvain, graduating doctor in both. In 1852 he joined the army, continuing his studies while working as a military medic. In February 1860, while he was garrisoned at Lier, canalisation works dug up bones of enormous size. Scohy identified these as the bones of a mammoth and ensured their preservation.Ernest Matthieu, "Scohy, François-Joseph", in ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 22(Brussels, 1920), 110-111. The Lier mammoth was mounted and in 1869 went on display in the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Scohy died in Lillois (now part of Braine-l'Alleud Braine-l'Alleud (; nl, Eigenbrakel ; wa, Brinne-l'-Alou) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about south of Brussels. The municipality consists o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Harzé
Léopold Harzé (1831–1893) was a Belgian sculptor who worked in Brussels. He is well known for his terracotta pieces, but also made patinated bronze sculptures. Life Harzé was born in Liège on 29 July 1831, the son of a firearm merchant. He was trained by the sculptor Gerard Buckens. In 1855 he spent time in the studio of Guillaume Geefs, and in 1868 travelled in Italy. He died in Liège on 20 November 1893. Career Harzé presented more than a dozen pieces of his work in the 1868 Paris exhibition. George Augustus Henry Sala George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala (November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the ''Illustrated London News'' as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for ''The Daily Telegra ..., one of the famous journalists of the era, commended him highly for his technical skills in depicting different materials and emotions using terracotta and described his work as "the most admirable specimens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine-Félix Bouré
Antoine-Félix Bouré (8 July 1831 – 8 April 1883), known in his own time as Félix Bouré but sometimes found in modern scholarship as Antoine Bouré, was a Belgian sculptor, best known for his monumental lions. Life and career Bouré was born in Brussels as the Belgian war of independence was drawing to a close. He studied locally first under Guillaume Geefs and then from 1846 to 1852 under Eugène Simonis at the Royal Academy for Fine Art, going abroad to complete his training at the Academy of Fine Arts at Florence. In his studies, he followed the same course as his older brother, Paul Bouré. Paul died in his mid-twenties when Antoine-Félix was only 17. Bouré was among the artists whose work was exhibited at the Musée Bovie, a ''grand maison'' built by the painter Virginie Bovie on the Rue de Trône, Brussels. In 1868, he was one of sixteen co-founders of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, an avant-garde society that provided exhibition space alternative to that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Reusens
Edmond Henri Joseph Reusens (25 April 1831 in Wijnegem, Antwerp – 25 December 1903 in Leuven) was a Belgian archeologist and historian. Sent to the University of Leuven immediately after his ordination to the priesthood (1854), he soon became head librarian of the university (1859–1896). He collaborated with his rector, Pierre François Xavier de Ram, in his works on the religious history of Belgium, and in 1864 they founded the review ''Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique'' which Reusens continued to direct until his death. With the same teacher, he became interested in the history of the University of Leuven, to which he devoted almost exclusively the last years of his life. Through his historical studies he acquired a knowledge of palaeography and diplomatics and became professor of a course in these branches (1881–1903) which was the first of its kind in Belgium. In 1900 he was appointed member of the Royal Commission of History (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Meunier
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905) was a Belgian painter and sculptor. He made an important contribution to the development of modern art by elevating the image of the industrial worker, docker and miner to an icon of modernity. His work is a reflection of the industrial, social and political developments of his day and represents a compassionate and committed view of man and the world. Early life and education Constantin Meunier was born in the traditionally working-class area of Etterbeek in Brussels. His family was poor and suffered from the negative economic impact caused by the Belgian Revolution which had taken place the year before Meunier's birth. Meunier's father committed suicide when he was just four years old.Constantin Meu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphrosine Beernaert
Euphrosine Beernaert (11 April 1831 – 7 July 1901) was a Belgian landscape painter.Euphrosine Beernaert at the Life Beernaerts was born at in 1831, and studied under Pierre-Louis Kuhnen in . She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited landscapes at Brussels, |
Auguste Voisin
Auguste Voisin (1800–1843) was a French-born Belgian historian, librarian and university professor. Life Voisin was born in Pernes-lès-Boulogne on 9 March 1800 and was educated at the royal college in Ghent and then Ghent University, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1824.Paul Becquart, "Voisin (Auguste)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 33(Brussels, 1965), 722-724. From 1825 to 1830 he taught rhetoric at a school in Kortrijk, and in 1830 became a private tutor in Ghent. He went on to teach Greek literature at the university, and on 13 April 1836 was appointed university librarian. He recatalogued the university's law collection. He also catalogued the library of the bibliophile Charles van Hulthem (1764–1832), which in 1837 was bought by the Royal Library of Belgium as the heart of its collection. From 1834 to 1838 he was permanent secretary to the Société des Beaux-Arts et de Littérature in Ghent, then becoming deputy secretary of the Académie royale de Peinture de Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital invent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Jean De Smet
Joseph Jean De Smet (1794–1877) was a priest and historian who took part in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Life De Smet was born in Ghent, in what was then the County of Flanders in the Austrian Netherlands, on 11 December 1794. His secondary and seminary education was in Ghent. Victor Fris, "Smet (Joseph Jean De)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 22(Brussels, 1920), 778-794. At the age of 25 he became professor of rhetoric at the minor seminary of St Barbara, and shortly afterwards at the diocesan college in Aalst. While teaching he wrote new textbooks on Belgian history, world geography and Latin rhetoric, adapted to the needs of Catholic education in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands which had come into being in 1815. These books, with some revisions, remained widely used in Belgian schools up to the middle of the century. In 1825, William I's education policy led to the closure of the diocesan schools. De Smet became a polemical writer against the policy, partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
