Guillaume-Hippolyte Van Volxem (13 February 1791 –17 April 1868) was a Belgian lawyer,liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.
Van Volxem was born and died in Brussels. As a graduate of the École de droit de Bruxelles,he became a lawyer at the Bar Association of Brussels . He began his political career in 1830,when he was designated as temporary member of the National Congress. In the same year,he was elected as alderman in Brussels and he was re-elected in 1836. Later,he became a member of the provincial council of Brabant and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1837–1845).
After the death of Nicolas-Jean Rouppe in 1838,he became the second burgomaster of the Belgian capital after the country's independence in 1830,as the municipal council designated him on 13 September 1838 to fulfill the functions of burgomaster of Brussels (1838–1841). He resigned as burgomaster when,on 13 April 1841,he became Minister for Justice (1841–1842) in the cabinet of Jean-Baptiste Nothomb,who succeeded on that day the liberal Joseph Lebeau,who had resigned. But van Volxem only stayed minister for twenty months,because Nothomb on 14 December 1842,took on its own account the position of Minister for Justice,in addition to that of Prime Minister. On 16 April 1843,the Catholic Jules d'Anethan became Minister for Justice after the Belgian elections in the spring of that year.
In 1845,at 54 years of age,Guillaume van Volxem withdrew from political life. Married to Adélaïde Willems,then to FélicitéMarischal (daughter of the very wealthy lawyer Jacques-Herman Marischal,administrator of the department of the Dyle,and aunt of Félix Paul Tiberghien and Arthur Warocqué [1] ),he was the father of Jules Van Volxem .
Egide Charles Gustave,Baron Wappers was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be Flemish and he signed his work with the Dutch form of his name,Gustaaf Wappers.
The Academy Palace or Palace of the Academies is a neoclassical palace in Brussels,Belgium. It was originally built between 1823 and 1828 for Prince William II of Orange. Nowadays,it houses five Belgian academies including the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB). In English,it is also often called the Academy House.
Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's,effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom,and briefly,as the prime minister of Belgium,all under King Leopold I.
Nicolas-Jean Rouppe was a Belgian liberal politician. He was the first mayor of the City of Brussels after Belgian independence in 1830.
The State University of Leuven was a university founded in 1817 in Leuven in Belgium,then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was distinct from the Old University of Leuven (1425-1797) and from the Catholic University of Leuven,founded in 1834,which moved from Mechlin to Leuven after the State University had been closed in 1835.
The Place des Martyrs is a historic square in central Brussels,Belgium. Its current name,meaning "Martyrs' Square",refers to the martyrs of the September Days of the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
The minister of justice of Belgium is responsible for the Federal Public Service Justice.
Jules Van Dievoet was a Belgian jurist and Supreme Court advocate.
Augustus Van Dievoet was a Belgian legal historian and Supreme Court advocate. His son,Jules Van Dievoet,also a Supreme Court advocate,married Marguerite Anspach (1852-1934),the daughter of Jules Anspach,who served as burgomaster of Brussels in 1863–1879.
The Royal Academy of Science,Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Community of Belgium. One of Belgium's numerous academies,it is the French-speaking counterpart of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In 2001 both academies founded a joint association for the purpose of promoting science and arts on an international level:The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB). All three institutions are located in the same building,the Academy Palace in Brussels.
Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1842 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1843 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1844 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1845 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The Van Dievoetfamily is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Lineages of Brussels and its members have been bourgeois (freemen) of that city since the 1600s. It formed,at the end of the 17th century,a now extinct Parisian branch which used the name Vandive.
The Wittouck family (/witʊk/) is a noble Belgian family,that descends from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels,established in Brussels since the 18th century.
The Sociétédes douze was a scholarly and literary dining club in Brussels.
Frédéric Basse was a Belgian politician and industrialist.
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