Alphonse-Jules Wauters

Alphonse-Jules Wauters (born June 13, 1845 in Brussels , † March 25, 1916 in Ixelles ) was a Belgian geographer , colonial politician and art writer.

Life

Alphonse-Jules Wauters was the son of Jules Wauters, clerk at the Belgian Court of Cassation, and Marie Charles. He was also a nephew of the archivist and historian Alphonse Wauters and the older brother of the painter Emile Wauters . In 1887 he became professor of art history at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and general secretary of the Congo Railway. He was also secretary of the Brussels Geographical Society. In 1884 he founded the magazine Le mouvement géographique (Brussels), which was devoted to the development of the colonial state of the Congo and of which he was director. He also founded the shorter-lived geographic journal Le Congo illustré (Brussels 1892–95). He published numerous geographic and colonial-political essays and maps as well as art historical writings.

Works (selection)

• La peinture flamande , Paris 1883; German, Leipzig 1893
• Le Congo au point de vue économique , Brussels 1885
• Carte de l'état indépendant du Congo, dressée d'après les derniers renseignements , Brussels 1887
• List chronologique des doyens des corps de métiers de Bruxelles de 1696 à 1795 , Brussels 1888
• Croquis de la region entre la Côte de Guinée et Timbouctou , Brussels 1888
• Le Congo: dix ans d'exploration , Brussels 1888
• Stanley au secours d' Emin-Pacha , Paris 1890
• Bibliographie du Congo, 1880-1895: Catalog méthodique de 3 800 ouvrages, brochures, notices et cartes relatifs à l'histoire, à la geographie et à la colonization du Congo , Brussels 1895
• Carte du Bas Congo donnant le tracé du chemin de fer de Matadi au Stanley Pool , Brussels 1896
• L'État indépendant du Congo , Brussels 1899
• Denis van Alsloot, peintre des archiducs Albert et Isabelle , Brussels 1899
• Le Musee de Bruxelles. Tableaux anciens. Notice, guide & catalog , Brussels 1900
• Carte de l'État indépendant du Congo , 4 sheets, scale 1: 2,000,000, Brussels 1900
• Album de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge: 80 reproductions hors texte d'œuvres exposées à Bruxelles en 1905 avec catalog et notices biographiques , Brussels 1906
• Histoire politique du Congo belge , Brussels 1911

literature

• Wauters, Alphonse Jules , in: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, 1902-08, Vol. 20, p. 436.
• Eugène De Seyn, Dictionnaire des écrivains belges , Ed. Excelsior, Bruges 1931.
• R. Cambier, Wauters (Alphonse Jules) , Biographie Coloniale Belge , Vol. 2 (1951), Col. 969-972.

Web links

• Alphonse-Jules Wauters archive , Royal Museum for Central Africa
• Information on Alphonse-Jules Wauters in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Newspaper article about Alphonse-Jules Wauters in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .