Alphonse Wauters

Alphonse Wauters

Portrait from Academy obituary by Henri Pirenne[1]
Born Alphonse Guillaume Ghislain Wauters
(1817-04-13)13 April 1817
Brussels, Belgium
Died 1 May 1898(1898-05-01) (aged 81)
Brussels, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Occupation archivist and historian
Known for Histoire de Bruxelles (3 vols., 1845); Histoire des environs de Bruxelles (10 vols., 1855)

Alphonse Wauters (1817–1898) was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life

Alphonse Guillaume Ghislain Wauters was born in Brussels on 13 April 1817. He was appointed archivist of the city of Brussels on 2 April 1842. He became a correspondent of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1860, and a member in 1868. In January 1886, after the death of Louis Prosper Gachard, he became the academy's secretary-treasurer.[2] He died in Brussels on 1 May 1898.

Works

References

  1. Henri Pirenne, “Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Alphonse Wauters. Membre de l’Académie”, Annuaire de l’Académie royale de Belgique 67 (1901), 45-102.
  2. Joseph Cuvelier, "Wauters (Alphonse)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 27 (Brussels, 1938), 110-115.
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