Auguste d'Anethan

Auguste d'Anethan (born February 17, 1829 , † June 11, 1906 in Paris ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Auguste d'Anethan was a son of Jules Joseph d'Anethan and married Isabelle Mosselman du Chenoy (1842–1876), a daughter of Isabelle Coghen (1822–1891) and Théodore Mosselman du Chenoy .

D'Anethan was the first Belgian Ambassador to the end of the Papal States in Pius IX. and from 1878 with Leo XIII. He was commissioned to propagate the religious ambitions of Leopold II on the Quirinal . On November 10, 1876, D'Anethan forwarded to Alessandro Franchi , since 1874 Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda fide , the text of a speech by Leopold on the establishment of the Belgian National Committee of the International Society for Africa . In an accompanying letter, D'Anethan stated that evangelization was a major concern of Leopold II. Charles Martial Lavigerie presented the Association internationale africaine as an exponent of Protestantism, in which the friend of the Catholic mission Leopold II would have little influence given the dominance of Protestant British and Germans. On December 4, 1876, D'Anethan received an audience with Pius IX. His report to the Belgian Foreign Minister Guillaume d'Aspremont Lynden on this is considered the Pope's placet on Leopold II's Africa policy and also showed figures of argumentation stressed by Leopold:

“J'approuve beaucoup les idées du Roi, m'a dit Pie IX, elles me semblent bonnes et très généreuses; j'ai été moi-même en Amérique révolté de voir des marchés d'esclaves; ce serait une grande chose de détruire cet affreux trafic et d'ouvrir l'Afrique à la civilization. "

After André Langrand-Dumonceau masse Belgian investors in the milieu of the Catholic party had cheated, won the parti libéral in Belgium in both legislative chambers, the absolute majority. In 1878 Walthère Frère-Orban was again Prime Minister. In 1879 a secular education law was passed that deprived the clergy of educational tasks. As a result, there was a school war. The Belgian Bishops' Conference read out a pastoral letter denying the anointing of the sick to parents who sent their children to a public school . About Auguste d'Anethan, Frère-Orban had an exchange of ideas with Leo XIII. on; he advised the Belgian bishops to exercise moderation and caution; He did not express a reprimand desired by Frère-Orban, whereupon Auguste d'Anethan was recalled on June 5, 1880 and diplomatic relations were interrupted until 1885.

Auguste d'Anethan on 18 May 1903 in the retirement offset what he his cousin Albert d ' Anethan , the ambassador in Tokyo , with a telegram announced.

literature

• Thierry Denoël: Le nouveau dictionnaire des Belges. Le Cri, Bruxelles 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D'Anetha at Franchi, November 10, 1876. - In Roeykens: La politique religieuse de l'Etat du indépendant Congo.- Doc 20, 40. Banning: L'Afrique et la Conférence de Bruxelles Géografique.. - p. 141.
2. ↑ Pius IX. I very much agreed with Leopold's ideas, they seemed very good and generous to him, the Pope was very shocked by the American slave market, and it was a good thing to destroy this terrible traffic and open Africa to civilization. Les origines et les débuts de la mission du Kwango (1879-1914) , 1956
3. ↑ Nicolaas Rasson: De diplomatieke breuk tussen Nederland en het Vaticaan. Het fiasco van de "échanges de vue", 1878-1880 .
4. ↑ May 15, 1903. - A. received a wire from his cousin Baron Auguste d'Anethan, Belgian Minister in Paris, saying he was retiring from the service. May 18, 1903.

Footnotes

1. ↑ nl: Théodore Mosselman du Chenoy
2. ↑ nl: Guillaume d'Aspremont Lynden
3. ↑ fr: Première guerre scolaire

predecessor	Office	successor
Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz	Belgian envoy in Lisbon 1867–1875	Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet
Henri Carolus	Belgian ambassador to the Holy See November 11, 1875–5. June 1880	Charles de Pitteurs-Hiegaerts
Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz	Belgian envoy in The Hague 1881–1894	while
Eugène Henri Léonard Beyens	Belgian envoy in Paris 1894–1903	Alfred-Ferdinand-Gustave Leghait