Jean-François Tielemans

Jean-François Tielemans (born November 15, 1799 in Brussels , † July 5, 1887 in Ixelles / Elsene ) was a Belgian liberal politician.

Life

Tielemans received his doctorate in law from the University of Liège in 1823 and then became a member of the Brussels Bar Association . Instead of his work as a lawyer , however, politics played a greater role for him in the following years . In 1827 the Ministry of Education sent him on a study trip to Germany and after his return in 1828 he received a traineeship in the Foreign Ministry. Despite his position, Tielemans published a number of critical writings. He was therefore arrested on February 15, 1830 and sentenced to seven years in exile for inciting revolution .

Tielemans went to Paris but returned to Brussels after the outbreak of the September Revolution. On October 6th he became a member of the commission charged with drafting a new constitution for Belgium . Tielemans endorsed the form of government of the republic and therefore refused to sign the final draft.

From October 10, 1830 to February 26, 1831 Tielemans was Administrateur-Général of the Committee for the Interior of the Provisional Government , the predecessor institution of the later Ministry of the Interior. Then Tielemans was from February 26, 1831 to March 23, 1831 Minister of the Interior in the first government of the Kingdom of Belgium.

Tielemans was governor ad interim in Antwerp from April 7 to June 14, 1831 and governor of Liege from June 14, 1831 to October 4, 1832 . Tieleman's liberal and republican attitude, however, caused more and more displeasure in the following years and on October 4, 1832 Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dismissed him from his governorship and appointed him advocate general at the Brussels Court of Appeal. Tielemans refused and resumed his practice as a lawyer, this time in Liege.

From 1834 to 1871 Tielemans was councilor at the Brussels Court of Appeal and from 1867 to 1871 its chairman. He was also a professor of administrative law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1836 to 1869 , of which he was a co-founder and which he headed as rector from 1849 to 1861.

From 1847 to 1848 Tielemans sat for the Arrondissement of Brussels in the Chamber of Deputies and from 1855 to 1877 in the Brussels City Council.

Tielemans was married and had two children.

Works (selection)

• Lettre à Monsieur Van Maanen, sur la responsabilité ministérielle. Coché-Mommens, Brussels 1829.
• Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique. Weissenbruch, Brussels 1834–1856.

literature

• Charles Potvin: François Tielemans. In: Revue de Belgique , Volume 19, 1887, pp. 306-310.
• August Keersmaekers: Honderdvijftig jaar provincieraad van Antwerpen (1836–1986). Antwerp 1986.
• Armand Fresson: Tielemans (Jean-François). In: Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Brussels 1930–1932, Vol. 25, pp. 246–250.