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1879 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1879 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Leopold II *Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban Events * 2 March – Castle in Tervuren burns down. * 17 April – Firedamp explosion at Agrappe Mine in Frameries. * 1 July – Law secularising primary education passes, triggering First School War Publications ;Periodicals * ''Almanach de Poche de Bruxelles'' (Brussels, H. Manceaux) * ''Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie'', 3 (Brussels, Secrétariat de la Société Belge de Géographie) ;Books * Hendrik Conscience, ''Het wassen beeld'' * Léon Vanderkindere, ''Le siècle des Artevelde: études sur la civilisation morale & politique de la Flandre & du Brabant'' (Brussels, A.-N. Lebègue). Art and architecture * Leuven railway station rebuilt Births * 5 February – Jules De Bisschop, Olympic rower (died 1954) * 15 February – Camille Van Hoorden, footballer (died 1919) * 28 April – Edgard Tytgat, paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – The Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Tytgat
Edgard Tytgat (Brussels, 28 April 1879 – Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, 11 January 1957) was a Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct languag ... painter. 1879 births 1957 deaths Artists from Brussels 20th-century Belgian painters {{Belgium-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Swerts
Jan Swerts (25 December 1820, Antwerp - 11 August 1879, Marienbad) was a Belgium, Belgian painter of historical subjects and portraits who worked on many publicly funded commissions. He played a major role in introducing German Romanticism, Romantic historical painting into Belgium. His fresco's using oil paint heralded a revival of a colouristic style derived from Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens and the Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque combined with historical and psychological realism. Life Training Jan Swerts was a student of the leading Antwerp history painter Nicaise De Keyser at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts.Biographical details at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Here he met Godfried Guffens, another pupil of De Keyser, who became a close friend. The two friends visited P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Martin
Konrad Martin (18 May 1812, at Geismar, Province of Saxony – 16 July 1879, at Mont St Guibert, near Brussels, Belgium) was a Catholic Bishop of Paderborn. Life Konrad Martin studied first under an elder brother who was a priest, and later at the Gymnasium at Heiligenstadt. He studied theology and Oriental languages for two years at Munich under Ignaz von Döllinger and Joseph Franz von Allioli, then went to Halle where the famous Gesenius taught, and thence to Würzburg, where he passed the ''examen rigorosum'' for the degree of ''Doctor Theologiæ''. But he was compelled to leave Würzburg, and undergo the same examination in Münster, Westphalia, because the Prussian ministry forbade studying at South German universities and did not recognize their degrees.Schlager, Patricius. "Konrad Martin." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Anspach
Baron Jules Victor Anspach (20 July 1829 – 19 May 1879) was a Belgian politician and mayor of the City of Brussels, best known for his renovations surrounding the covering of the river Senne (1867–1871). He is buried in Brussels Cemetery. Anspach was born in Brussels into a family of Calvinist Genevan origin. His father François (died 1858) served in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. Jules Anspach studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) becoming a Doctor of Laws. As with many Liberals, Anspach was a Freemason. Like his father, Anspach was elected to the Chamber of Representatives. Anspach rose rapidly, replacing Fontainas as mayor of Brussels in 1863, aged only 34, holding the office until his death in 1879. He effected massive changes to the urban landscape of Brussels, centred on his oeuvre, the covering of the Senne. His renovations in Brussels paralleled those by Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Coster
Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. Early life and education He was born in Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a native of Liège, who was attached to the household of the Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria in Munich, but soon returned to Belgium. Charles was placed in a Brussels bank, but in 1850 he entered the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he completed his studies in 1855. He was one of the founders of the Société des Joyeux, a small literary club, more than one member of which was to achieve literary distinction. De Coster made his debut as a poet in the ''Revue trimestrielle'', founded in 1854, and his first efforts in prose were contributed to a periodical entitled ''Uylenspiegel'' (founded 1856). A correspondence covering the years 1850 to 1858, his ''Lettres à Elisa'', were edited by Charles Potvin in 1894. He was a keen student of Franço ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Lebon
Joseph Lebon (Tamines, 1879–1957) was a Belgian priest and professor of theology at the University of Louvain.Patrimoine Littéraire Européen: Anthologie en Langue Française: Volume 13 - Page 451 Jean-Claude Polet - 2000 "Lebon (Joseph) 1879-1957 Né à Tamines, en Belgique, Joseph Lebon fut ordonné prêtre en 1903. Etudiant à l'université de Louvain, il devient en 1909 docteur et maître en théologie, avec une dissertation sur « Le monophysisme sévérien." He is best known for his immense work devoted to the reception of the Council of Chalcedon in the Syriac and Armenian domains. His 1909 thesis devoted to Monophysite resistance to the Chalcedonian definition or horos centred on the writings of Severus of Antioch and the influence of Cyril of Alexandria. Editions of the surviving Syriac translations of Severus in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium and ground-breaking articles in Le Muséon followed at regular intervals. The climax of Lebon's work in this are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rogister
Jean François Toussaint Rogister (25 October 1879 in Liège – 20 March 1964 in Liège) was a Belgian virtuoso violist, teacher and composer. Life and career Jean Rogister came from a family of musicians; his father was a flautist and his brothers Fernand Rogister (1872–1954), a horn player and composer, Chrétien Rogister (pseudonym Caludi) (1884–1941), a violinist and composer, and Hubert Rogister, a cellist. A musically gifted child, Rogister studied violin, viola, horn and composition at the Liège Conservatory.''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', Eighth Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1993, page 1529. Rogister studied composition with Jean-Théodore Radoux, and viola with Désiré Heynberg (1831–1898) and Oscar Englebert. He emerged a virtuoso viola player, and at the age of twenty-one, he was appointed Professor of Viola (1900–1945) at the Liège Conservatory. Rogister performed in chamber ensembles and made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Beeli
Maurice Philippe Gaspard Beeli (21 October 1879, St-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles – 17 March 1957) was a Belgian mycologist. For more than thirty years, being encouraged by Émile De Wildeman and Walter Robyns, successive directors of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium, he collaborated on collections of fungi native to Belgium and the Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo (french: Congo belge, ; nl, Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964. Colo .... Although regarded as a pioneer of Congolese mycology, he never travelled to Africa. Between 1920 and 1940, he published nearly 30 works about African mushrooms that were kept at the botanical garden, with 11 of the articles being printed in the journal "Fungi Goossensiani". He initiated work on the "''Flore iconographique des champignons du Congo''", precursor to the "''Flore illustrée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Sengier
Edgar Edouard Bernard Sengier (9 October 1879 – 26 July 1963) was a Belgian mining engineer and director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining company that operated in Belgian Congo during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project, much of which was already stored in a Staten Island warehouse due to his foresight to stockpile the ore to prevent it from falling into a possible enemy's hands. For his actions he became the first non-American civilian to be awarded the Medal for Merit by the United States government. Early life Born in Kortrijk, Sengier graduated in 1903 as a mining engineer from the University of Leuven and joined the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK) in 1911 as it was beginning to exploit copper mines in Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. The UMHK was owned jointly by the Société Générale de Belgique, a Belgian investment company, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Galopin
Alexandre Galopin (26 September 1879 – 28 February 1944) was a Belgian businessman notable for his role in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. Galopin was director of the Société Générale de Belgique, a major Belgian company, and chairman of the board of the motor and armaments company Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (FN). At the head of a group of Belgian industrialists and financiers, he gave his name to the "Galopin Doctrine" which prescribed how Belgian industry should deal with the moral and economic choices imposed by the occupation. In February 1944, he was assassinated by Flemish collaborators from the DeVlag group. Early career Alexandre Galopin was born in Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium on 28 September 1879. His father was a university professor. Galopin pursued a career in business became in 1913 managing director of Fabrique national d'armes de guerre at Herstal which had originated as a manufacturer of firearms. He championed its development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Delattre
Achille Delattre (24 August 1879 – 13 July 1964) was a Belgian politician and trade unionist. Born in Pâturages, in the Hainaut Province of Belgium, Delattre became a coal miner at the age of twelve. In 1902, he founded a branch of the Belgian Miners' Federation in his village. He spent some time working as a journalist, but from 1914 worked full-time as a trade union organiser and politician. In 1907, Delattre joined the Belgian Labour Party, winning election to the village council, then in 1921 he was elected to the Chamber of Representatives, representing Bergen. The following year, he was elected to the national executive of the Labour Party. In 1927, Delattre was persuaded by Herbert Smith to become secretary of the Miners' International Federation (MIF), the first non-Briton to hold the post. He resigned in 1934, becoming Minister of Labour in Belgium from 1935 until 1939, then served as vice-president of the Labour Party until it was banned in 1940. He also ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
