Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye

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Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye

Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye (born April 5, 1822 in Bruges , † January 3, 1892 in Doyon near Liège ) was a Belgian economist . From 1864 he was a professor at the University of Liège and in 1873 was one of the co-founders of the Institut de Droit international .

Life

Émile de Laveleye graduated from the Collège Stanislas , a private school of the Catholic oratory community in Paris , and later the Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Ghent . In 1864 he became professor of economics at the University of Liège .

Three years later he represented Belgium on the jury for the 1867 World's Fair . In September 1873 he was involved in founding the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law), an institution that has existed to the present day and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904 .

Act

Émile de Laveleye's activities spanned broad areas of political science and economics as well as issues of monetary policy , international law and international relations . In addition, he dealt with questions of education , religion , morality and literature , and in 1861, for example, created a French translation of the Nibelungenlied . He felt particularly inclined to the society in England , as this corresponded in many areas to his social, political and religious ideas.

Works (selection)

  • La Russie et l'Autriche depuis Sadowa. Hachette, Paris 1870
  • Essai sur les formes de gouvernement dans les Sociétés Modernes. Germer Baillière, Paris 1872
  • The causes current de guerre en Europe et de l'arbitrage. C. Muquardt, Brussels 1873
  • De la proprieté et de ses formes primitives. Germer Baillière, Paris 1874
  • La peninsule of the Balkans. Vienne, Croatie, Bosnie, Serbie, Bulgarie, Roumélie, Turquie, Roumanie. The Hague and Brussels 1886; German edition: The Balkan countries. Leipzig 1888 (digital copies from the holdings of the Institute for East and Southeast European Research : urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr05301-2 part 1 - urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr05302-7 part 2)

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personal data
SURNAME Laveleye, Émile Louis Victor de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Laveleye, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1892
Place of death Doyon near Liege