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1845 In Belgium
Events in the year 1845 in Belgium. Incumbents * Monarch: Leopold I * Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (to 30 July); Sylvain Van de Weyer (from 30 July) Events * 10 June – partial legislative election * 16 September – Parliament meets in extraordinary session to debate responses to the failure of the potato crop * 10 November – Commercial treaty with the United States signed by Thomas Green Clemson and Adolphe Deschamps in Brussels. Publications ;Periodicals * ''Almanach de poche de Bruxelles'' (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh) * ''Almanach royal de Belgique'' (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) * ''Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand'' * ''Annales parlementaires de Belgique'', part 1, part 2. * ''Le bibliophile belge'' begins publication. * ''Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique'', vol. 4 * ''Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire'', vols. 9 and 10 * ''Journal de l'Instruction publique'' b ... [...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] |
Karel Ooms
Karel Ooms (27 January 1845 - 18 March 1900) was a Belgian painter of portraits, genre paintings and history paintings. He was also known for his Orientalist scenes and Oriental landscapes. Life Karel Ooms was born in Dessel as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel.Object v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 In Belgium
Events in the year 1845 in Belgium. Incumbents * Monarch: Leopold I * Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (to 30 July); Sylvain Van de Weyer (from 30 July) Events * 10 June – partial legislative election * 16 September – Parliament meets in extraordinary session to debate responses to the failure of the potato crop * 10 November – Commercial treaty with the United States signed by Thomas Green Clemson and Adolphe Deschamps in Brussels. Publications ;Periodicals * ''Almanach de poche de Bruxelles'' (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh) * ''Almanach royal de Belgique'' (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) * ''Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand'' * ''Annales parlementaires de Belgique'', part 1, part 2. * ''Le bibliophile belge'' begins publication. * ''Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique'', vol. 4 * ''Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire'', vols. 9 and 10 * ''Journal de l'Instruction publique'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Artôt
Alexandre Joseph Artôt (25 January 1815 – 20 July 1845) was a Belgian violinist. Life He was born at Brussels into a musical family. His father was Maurice Artôt (1772–1829), first horn-player at the theatre in Brussels. His mother was Jeanne Catherine Borremans, from the musical family of Charles and Joseph Borremans. His father was born with the surname Montagny or Montaguey, but had adopted the professional name Artôt, which was preserved by all his children. Alexandre's older brother was the horn player , who later became the father of soprano Désirée Artôt. Alexandre received instruction in music and on the violin from his father, and at the age of seven played at the theatre a concerto of Giovanni Battista Viotti. He received further instruction from , principal first violin at the theatre, and afterwards at the Paris Conservatory from Rodolphe and , and in 1827 and 1828 he obtained the second and first violin prizes respectively. According to Fétis, Artôt then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique II Berger
Dominique II Berger (Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ..., 1 January 1780 – 23 March 1845) was a Flemish organist and the official city carillonneur of Bruges between 1807 and 1838. Levensloop Dominique or Dominiek II Berger was the eldest son of Dominique I Berger (1747–1797), who was an organ builder, and of Francisca van de Voorde. The Bergers were a family from Bruges that were part of a long dynasty of organ builders. During the French Revolutionary era, Dominique II travelled to Paris where he received music lessons from Luigi Boccherini. At his return to Bruges in 1807, he was appointed as organist at the Saint-Salvatore church and succeeded Henderyck Fromont as the official carillonneur of Bruges. In December 1808, he married Maria Hubené. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippus Jacobus Brepols
Philippus Jacobus Brepols (1778 – 1845) was a Belgian publisher and founder of the Brepols printing family-business in Turnhout, Belgium. Life and work In 1795, Pieter Corbeels Pieter Corbeels (Leuven, 12 March 1755 – Tournai, 21 June 1799) was a Belgian book printer and resistance leader. He was a founder of the Belgian-based publishing company Brepols. He commanded part of the Brabantine forces during a revolt again ..., a printer from Leuven moved together with his assistant Philippus Jacobus Brepols, to Turnhout, possibly to flee the French military which occupied Belgium at that time. Since Corbeels was executed for his fight against the French, his apprentice Philippus Jacobus Brepols, had to take over the responsibility for the printing company. The widow of Corbeels managed the business for short while, but from 1800 onwards P.J. Brepols gradually took over the house and the business. On 3 January 1845 P.J. Brepols died and the company was continued by his only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Évariste Carpentier
Évariste Carpentier (1845 – 1922) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes and animated landscapes. Over the years, his painting evolved from academic art to impressionism. Alongside Emile Claus, he is one of the earliest representatives of luminism in Belgium. Biography Youth Évariste Carpentier was born into a modest family of farmers in Kuurne. He became a pupil at the Academy of Fine Arts of Courtrai in 1861, under the direction of Henri De Pratere. There, he obtained many distinctions. In 1864 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp where he received tuition from Nicaise de Keyser. He proved to be gifted in painting from life, and achieved the prize of excellence in 1865, which allowed him to obtain a private studio in the Academy the following year. Early career In 1872, Carpentier established himself in Antwerp and acquired his own studio. It is there that he painted many commissioned works, which did not yet reflect his artistic personalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert I Of Belgium
Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934. Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Albert succeeded his uncle, Leopold II, to the Belgian throne in 1909. He married Elisabeth of Bavaria, with whom he had three children. Albert ruled during an eventful period in the history of Belgium, which included the period of World War I (1914–1918), when most of Belgium was occupied by German forces. Other crucial events of his reign included the adoption of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, the ruling of the Belgian Congo as an overseas possession of Belgium along with the League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, the reconstruction of Belgium following the war, and the first five years of the Great Depression (1929–1934). Albert died in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium in 1934, at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Marie Of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Princess Marie Luise Karoline Alexandra of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, second son of King Leopold I of Belgium, and she was the mother of King Albert I. Family Marie was the youngest daughter and last of the six children of Prince Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Prime minister of Prussia and Princess Josephine of Baden, and as such a younger sister of Prince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, King Carol I of Romania and of Queen Stephanie, Queen Consort of Portugal Marriage Marie was considered as a potential wife for the future Edward VII of the United Kingdom.Hibbert, p. 41. Though she was considered "quite lovely" by his family, her Roman Catholic religion barred her from being a suitable consort for the head of the Anglican church. On 25 April 1867 at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Mellery
Xavier Mellery (9 August 1845, Laken Р4 February 1921, Brussels) was a Belgian Symbolist painter. The son of a gardener at the Royal Palace of Laeken, Mellery initially worked with the painter-decorator Charles Albert. He attended the Acad̩mie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867, one of his professors being Jean-Fran̤ois Portaels. Mellery won the Prix de Rome and traveled to Italy where he studied paintings from the Renaissance. His works include ''The Rondo of the Hours''. Honours 1885: Knight in the Order of Leopold.Handelsblad (Het) 04-11-1885 Mellery designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon The () or (Dutch) is a neighbourhood and hill in the historic upper town of Brussels, Belgium. At its heart are twin squares: the larger or ("Large Sablon") square in the north-west and the smaller or ("Small Sablon") square and garden i ... garden in Brussels. File:0 Bruxelles - Petit Sablon - Couvreur en tuiles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Nagelmackers
Georges Lambert Casimir Nagelmackers (born 25 June 1845 in Liège, Belgium; deceased 10 August 1905 in Villepreux, France) (60 years old) was a Belgian civil engineer and businessman. He was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains. Biography Born into a family of bankers with interests in railways and close links to the court of King Leopold II of Belgium, Georges Nagelmackers trained as a civil engineer.Tanel. Page 94. As a young man he fell in love with an older cousin. When his feelings were not reciprocated, his family encouraged him to travel to the United States of America to help him recover and also further his professional studies. He spent ten months travelling throughout America during which time he was exposed to train travel on Pullman carriages. He became convinced that there was a market for Pullman-type carriages in Europe. After a proposal to George Pullman to collaborate on developing the Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse-Jules Wauters
Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845–1916) was a Belgian art historian, geographer, and magazine editor. Life Wauters was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 June 1845. In 1887 he became a professor of Art History at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1894 a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. His passion, however, was geography. He became Secretary of the Brussels Geographical Society, and founded and edited two geographical journals, '' Le Mouvement Géographique'' (1884–1922) and the shorter-lived '' Le Congo illustré'' (1891–1895), which supported projects for colonisation in Central Africa.Elise Henry,''Le Mouvement Géographique'', entre géographie et propagande coloniale, ''Belgeo: Revue Belge de Géographie'' 1 (2008), pp. 27-46. Wauters died in Ixelles, Belgium, on 25 March 1916. Works * ''La peinture flamande'' (Paris, 1883) ** English edition as ''The Flemish School of Painting'', tr. H. Rossel (London, 1885) ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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