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1881 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1881 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Leopold II *Prime Minister:Walthère Frère-Orban Events * 10 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium marries Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, in the Augustinian Church, Vienna. * 8 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux performs the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres, mandated in a papal brief of Pope Leo XIII. Publications ;Periodicals * ''L'Art Moderne'' begins publication. ;Books * ''Exposition de l'art ancien au Pays de Liège: Catalogue officiel'' (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders) * ''A Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium'' (London, John Murray). * Alfred Giron, ''Le droit administratif de la Belgique'' (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe) * François Nizet, ''Voyage de Bruxelles à Aix-la-Chapelle: Excursions de Sa Majesté la Reine des Belges'' (Brussels) Art and architecture ;Buildings * Adolphe Vanderheggen, Halles Saint-Géry (Brussel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881
Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. * February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Citoyenne'' is published by Hubertine Auclert. * February 16 – The Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André-Eugène Pirson
André-Eugène Pirson (21 March 1817 – 28 December 1881) was a Belgian liberal politician, civil servant, and former governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1877 until 1881. From 1857 to 1861, he was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. Career Born in Dinant, he started his career in the army, but left after four years of service to become the State cashier's agent for the Société Générale de Belgique, first in Oudenaarde, and later in Tournai until 1850 when the National Bank of Belgium was established. André-Eugène Pirson continued his career at the National Bank as an agent for the NBB in Tournai. In 1855, he set up a discount office in Tournai and also worked as acommissioner and administrator of a number of savings banks. In 1864 he was appointed director of the National Bank, and became vice-governor under Eugène Prévinaire, whom he succeeded in 1877. During his term of office he was confronted by and economic recession and growing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Michiel Ruyten
Jan Michiel Ruyten or Jan Ruyten (9 April 1813, in Antwerp – 12 November 1881, in Antwerp) was a Belgians, Belgian Romanticism, Romantic painter, draughts man and engraver known for his Genre art, genre paintings, Veduta, cityscapes, landscapes with figures and history paintings. He was influenced by Dutch Romantic painting.Jan Michiel Ruyten at Simonis & Buunk Jean Michel Ruyten at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Life Jan Michiel Ruyten was born in Antwerp where he received his first artistic training from Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter. Initially he painted landscapes and genre paintings and then developed towards city ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Vander Meersch
Auguste Théodore Vander Meersch (1810–1881) was a Belgian writer who was heavily involved in producing the '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''. Life Vander Meersch was born in Ghent on 25 August 1810. He studied at Ghent University, graduating with a doctorate in law in 1833. Abandoning the legal profession, he focused his efforts on local history and biographical research.Paul Bergmans, "Meersch (Auguste-Théodore Vander)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 14(Brussels, 1897), 260-261. When Jules de Saint-Genois Jules, Baron de Saint-Genois (22 March 1813 – 10 September 1867) was a Belgian liberal politician, historian, librarian and professor at the University of Ghent. He was the first President of the Willemsfonds and a prolific contributor to the ea ... launched the plan for a ''Biographie Nationale'', Vander Meersch drafted the first list of who should be included. He undertook the management of the venture, seeing to the printing, accounting and corresponden ... [...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] |
Henri Vieuxtemps
Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps ( 17 February 18206 June 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century. He is also known for playing what is now known as the Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin of superior workmanship. Biography Vieuxtemps was born in Verviers, Belgium (then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands), son of a weaver and amateur violinist and violin-maker. He received his first violin instruction from his father and a local teacher and gave his first public performance at the age of six, playing a concerto by Pierre Rode. Soon he was giving concerts in various surrounding cities, including Liège and Brussels where he met the violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot, with whom he began studies. In 1829, Bériot took him to Paris where he made a successful concert debut, again with a concerto by Rode, but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist. Biography Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfumer, and his wife Léonie (née Jonckheere). From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a self-taught artist. Sickly and reclusive, he spent most of his youth sketching scenes of ordinary life and the Belgian countryside. When he was 21, Spilliaert went to work in Brussels for Edmond Deman, a publisher of the works of symbolist writers, which Spilliaert was to illustrate. He especially admired the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Watercolor, gouache, pastel, and charcoal—often in combination—were the means by which he produced many of his best works, among which are a number of monochrome self-portraits executed in the early years of the twentieth century. Spilliaert's e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Poels
François Poels (12 April 1881 – 27 December 1926) was a Belgian trade union leader. Born in Elsene, Poels completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer. In 1906, he joined the Union of Lithographers in Brussels, becoming its deputy general secretary in 1911, and general secretary in 1912. He argued in favour of a single union covering the whole printing trade, and as a step towards this, in 1913, he merged his union into the new Union of Workers in Lithography and Kindred Trades, becoming its first general secretary. Poels served on the Committee d'Appel du Secours de Chomage during World War I then, after the war, left his trade union post to become secretary of the Brussels Labour Exchange. However, he remained involved with his old union, and in 1920, he was elected as general secretary of the International Federation of Lithographers, Lithographic Printers and Kindred Trades The International Federation of Lithographers, Lithographic Printers and Kindred Trades (IFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Daufresne De La Chevalerie
Lieutenant-General Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie (17 March 1881 – 25 November 1967) was a Belgian sportsman and commander of the Free Belgian forces during the Second World War. He was born in Bruges and died in Uccle. Sporting career He was a football player for Cercle Brugge from 1903 until 1907. In his last 2 years at Cercle, he was also president of the team, succeeding Leon De Meester. His player career and presidency at Cercle Brugge ended abruptly when he moved to Cercle's rivals, Club Brugge to become a member of the board as well as a player for the blue and black side. But football wasn't the only sport Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie was practising. He was also an equestrian and he played hockey and tennis. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Daufresne de la Chevalerie was coach of the Belgian football team. He also represented Belgium as hockey player (winning the bronze medal) at these Olympics. World War II During the military mobilisation of Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geo Verbanck
Geo (Georges) Verbanck (28 February 1881 – 12 December 1961) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist. Early life Born in the city of Ghent (Flanders), Belgium, Verbanck spent his childhood in the care of a foster family at the countryside in Laarne. At the age of 14, he moved back to Ghent as he had to make a living. He was appointed as an apprentice in the studio of Petrus Pauwels-D’Hondt, a sculptor and art-cabinetmaker who specialized in period pieces and church furniture. Here he acquired the first techniques of fine art wood carving. In 1896, Verbanck moved to another workplace, this time of the renowned sculptor Aloïs de Beule, who ran a studio which produced a broad range of artwork such as crucifixes, stations, allegorical statues, steles and busts. Not only Geo Verbanck, but also his fellow apprentices Leon Sarteel and Oscar Sinia, acquired in this studio the skills of making artwork using different materials. Their craftsmanship allowed them to become esteemed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huib Hoste
Hubrecht (Huib) Hoste (6 February 1881 – 18 August 1957) was a Belgian architect, designer and urban planner. He is considered the pioneer of modern architecture in Belgium. Life Huib Hoste was born in Bruges on 6 February 1881. His birth was registered in French by his father Leon with the name of Hubert Léon Bruno Jean Marie Hoste. Hoste grew up in a French-speaking traditionalist Catholic family from Bruges. He graduated from Ghent University. After his studies, he worked in the office of his teacher Charles De Wulf (1862–1904) but took lessons in Ghent as a free apprentice of architect-engineer Louis Cloquet (1849–1920), who also employed him for a while. Works Until the First World War, Hoste lived in Bruges. To earn his living, Hoste was obliged to build in the Gothic Revival style. In total, he realized about thirty projects. From 1911 onwards he underwent the influence of Dutch architecture, especially that of Hendrik Petrus Berlage. He travelled regularly t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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