Charles Van Den Born
Charles-Louis Van Den Born (born July 11, 1874 in Liège , † January 24, 1958 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a Belgian track cyclist and aviation pioneer .
Charles Van Den Born came from a middle-class, musically gifted Liège family, his mother was French. He was a professional cyclist from 1895 to 1910. During this time he was the Belgian sprint champion seven times , and at the UCI Track World Championships in 1908 in Leipzig he was third in this discipline.
In 1909 Van Den Born met the aviation pioneer Henri Farman , who infected him with his enthusiasm for aviation. On March 31, 1910, he was the sixth Belgian to receive his flight license. Farman then entrusted him with the management of his flight school. In the same year, Van Den Born went to Vietnam with his wife to organize a flight week in Saigon , for which he had taken three Farman II biplanes with him. About 100,000 people watched on December 15, 1910 his flight over the Racecourse of Phu Tho Province , which was celebrated in December 2010 in Vietnam and appreciated. In January 1911, he held a flight demonstration in front of the King of Siam , Vajiravudh . When the First World War broke out , he returned to Europe to join the Belgian Air Force.
After the war, Charles Van Den Born went back to Indochina to support the development of aviation, such as the construction of an airport in Saigon, and bought a plantation there. In 1936 he received French citizenship.
During the Second World War he was interned and tortured by the Japanese army. Then he returned to France, financially and healthily ruined. In 1958 he died in a senior citizens' home of the Legion of Honor as a result of an operation.
Web links
- Charles Van Den Born in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Charles Van Den Born on lepetitbraquet.free.fr ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- Charles Van Den Born on aviatechno.free.fr (French)
1894, 1895 Emile Huet | 1898, 1905–1909 Charles Van Den Born | 1899 Louis Grogna | 1900 Claude Leclercq | 1904 Ernest Massart | 1910 Albert Herent | 1911 Hubert Wilmots | 1912, 1914, 1926 Émile Otto | 1913, 1919, 1920 Jozef Van Bever | 1921 Jules Dossche | 1922–1925, 1927–1929 Alois De Graeve | 1930 Jacques Arlet | 1931–1939, 1941, 1942, 1944–1946 Jef Scherens | 1940 Frans Cools | 1943, 1951–1956 Emile Gosselin | 1948 Frans Van Looveren | 1949, 1950 Raymond Pauwels | 1957–1963, 1966 Jos De Bakker | 1964 Leo Sterckx | 1965, 1967–1969 Patrick Sercu | 1970–1974, 1976 Robert Van Lancker | 1975 Raphael Constant | 1981, 1982 Michel Vaarten | 1993–1995 Erik Schoefs | 1997 Mario Ghyselinck | 1998 Luc De Duytsche | 1999 Wim Van Rengen | 2000-2003 Dimitri De Fauw | 2004 Dominique Perissi | 2012 Kim Van Leemput | 2015 Matthias Oseï Vertez | 2016 Robin Venneman | 2017, 2018 Ayrton De Pauw | 2019 Gerald Nys
The sprint championship was not held continuously.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Den Born, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Den Born, Charles-Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian track cyclist, French aviation pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1958 |
| Place of death | Saint-Germain-en-Laye |