Auguste Duvivier

Auguste Duvivier (1838)

Auguste Joseph Duvivier (born December 12, 1772 in Mons , Hainaut , Belgium , † July 1, 1846 in Brussels ) was a Belgian liberal politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied medicine at the University of Leuven and continued his education as a doctor in Paris after his admission . Subsequently, however, he did not work as a doctor, but in 1798 became a teacher of natural history at the central school of the Jemappes department . After some time he switched to the financial administration as financial inspector and in 1811 became inspector general of the financial administration of the Jemappes, Lys , Deux-Nèthes and Escaut departments , which are located in what is now Belgium.

After the end of the First French Empire in 1814 he was appointed chief tax collector of Kortrijk and in 1827 director for direct taxes in the province of Brabant .

By the provisional government he was first appointed finance administrator and then from May 30 to July 24, 1831 as acting finance minister in the government of Prime Minister Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier .

He was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1831 , where he represented the Arrondissement de Soignies until his death . In addition, between 1831 and 1846 he was mayor of Mesvin, a current district of Mons.

Between 1832 and 1834 he was then finance minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Charles Rogier .

After leaving the government, he was honored with the title of Minister of State on August 8, 1834 .