Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916) was a celebrated Belgian historian and pioneering Christian democrat. He is known for his histories of the city of Liège in the Middle Ages and of Belgium, his Catholic account of the formation of modern Europe in Les Origines de la civilisation moderne, and his defence of the medieval guild system.
Jean Stengers was a Belgian historian.
Marie Popelin was a Belgian lawyer and early feminist political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of women's education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to receive a doctorate in law. After her accession to the bar was refused, Popelin went on to have an active career as the leader of Belgian League for Women's Rights. She died in 1913 without ever gaining admission to the bar.
In the politics of Belgium, Unionism or Union of Opposites is a Belgian political movement that existed from the 1820s to 1846.
Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise-Marcellin Jobard was a Belgian lithographer, photographer and inventor of French origin. Founder of the first significant Belgian lithographic establishment, first photographer in Belgium on 16 September 1839, director of the Musée de l’Industrie de Bruxelles from 1841 to 1861, Jobard played a role, nowadays underappreciated, in the artistic, technological, scientific and industrial development of Belgium during the Dutch period and the reign of Leopold I.
Augustus Van Dievoet was a Belgian legal historian and Supreme Court Judge. Following a distinguished legal career as a judge at the Belgian Court of First Instance and then the Belgian Supreme Court, Van Dievoet dedicated his final years to the study, collection and composition of numerous volumes on Belgian legal history.. His son, Jules Van Dievoet, married Marguerite Anspach (1852-1934), the daughter of Jules Anspach, who served as burgomaster of Brussels in 1863-1879, and served on the Belgian Supreme Court..
Victor Amédée Jacques Marie Coremans was a Belgian archivist, journalist, historian, and political activist. He supported the Flemish Movement, advocating nationhood for Flanders.
Charles Numa Ensch(-Tesch), was a Belgian lawyer and politician.
Alphonse Wauters (1817–1898) was a Belgian archivist and historian.
Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845–1916) was a Belgian art historian, geographer, and magazine editor.
Charles Terlinden (1878—1972) was a Belgian historian, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, and papal chamberlain.
Alphonse Roersch (1870–1951) was a Belgian philologist, professor at the University of Ghent.
Louise van den Plas was a Belgian suffragist and the founder of the first Christian feminist movement in Belgium.
Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1861 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.
Thomas Braun (1876–1961) was a Belgian lawyer and French-language poet. He also published under the pen names Bonissart, Brunissart and Ranhissart.
