Gabriel Auguste van der Straten-Ponthoz
Gabriel-Auguste Graf van der Straten-Ponthoz (born September 14, 1812 in Clavier , Province of Liège , † February 23, 1900 ) was a Belgian diplomat .
Life
He came from the Belgian count family van der Straten-Ponthoz and was the son of Louis Marie Hyacinthe Joseph Count van der Straten-Ponthoz and the Gabrielle Eustache Françoise de Laittres . Straten-Ponthoz began his diplomatic career in 1838 as an attaché at the court of the Swedish king in Stockholm . 1840 he was appointed as Secretary of Legation to Washington dispatched was 1844-1845 dortiger d'affaires and was in 1845 as deputy charge d'affaires after Rio de Janeiro was added. In 1848 he returned to Lisbon as Chargé d'affaires and in 1856 became Minister Resident in Madrid . In 1868 he came to Munich as the Belgian envoy to the Bavarian royal court , then became ambassador to The Hague in 1869 and completed his diplomatic career from 1881 to 1887 as Belgian envoy to the German imperial court in Berlin . He took part in the Congo Conference in 1884/85 as Belgian representative .
Orders and decorations
- Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II.
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion
- Grand Cross of the Luxembourg Order of the Oak Crown
- Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Christ
- Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Charles III.
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael
- and a few others
Publications
- Onderzoek naar the toestand of the land-buggers in the Vereenlidge Staten van Noord-Amerika , Verlag Van Heljningen, Utrecht 1847; - Research on the situation of emigrants in the United States of North America , adapted from the French original by Ms. Osswald, Kollmannsche Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1846
- Le Budget Du Brasil , before 1923; - Reprint: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 1-147-62062-8
literature
- Straten-Ponthoz, Gabriel-August comte van der. In: Joseph Havenith: Armorial belge du bibliophile. Volume 3, page 873, Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique, 1930.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://home.scarlet.be/gallez.nic/Publications/VdStraeten-Ponthoz.htm ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Ignaz von Döllinger, Charlotte Blennerhassett: Briefwechsel 1865-1886 , CH Beck, 1981, page 734 excerpt
- ↑ Suret-Canale, Jean: Introduction. In: Gatter, Frank Thomas (Ed.): Protocols and General Acts of the Berlin Africa Conference 1884 - 1885, p. 33.
- ^ Nouveau recueil général de traités et autres actes relatifs aux rapports de droit international, Verlag Dieterich, 1883, volume 8, page 160 excerpt .
- ↑ online
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Charles Serruys |
Belgian Chargé d'affaires in Washington, DC 1844–1845 |
Napoleon Alcindor de Beaulieu |
Belgian Chargé d'affaires in Lisbon 1848 |
Henri Carolus | |
Eugène Henri Léonard Beyens | Belgian envoy in Madrid 1856 |
Jules Greindl |
Napoléon Alcindor Beaulieu 1857: Eugen Morel |
Belgian envoy in Munich 1867–1869 |
Jules Greindl |
Belgian envoy in The Hague 1869 |
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Jean-Baptiste Nothomb |
Belgian envoy in Berlin 1881–1887 |
Jules Greindl |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Van der Straten-Ponthoz, Gabriel Auguste |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Straten-Ponthoz, Gabriel-Auguste van der |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1812 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Clavier , Liege Province |
DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1900 |