Louis Prosper Gachard

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Portrait of Louis-Prosper Gachard (from: C. PIOT, Notice sur Louis-Prosper Gachard, membre de l'Académie , in: Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique , 54 (1888 ), 193-236.)

Louis Prosper Gachard (born March 12, 1800 in Paris , † December 24, 1885 in Brussels ) was a Belgian state archivist and historian . He was the initiator and secretary of the Commission Royale d'Histoire, founded in 1834, and in the organization of the Belgian archives.

Gachard was originally a typesetter , moved from France to Belgium, completed his education as a municipal official in Tournai through linguistic and historical studies, and in 1826 became deputy archivist of the State Archives in Brussels, and in 1831 archivist of the Belgian State Archives. From 1842 he was a member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences . The organization of the Belgian archives by Gachard should ultimately become the starting point of a modern archive administration in Europe. The Belgian archives became a model. All reorganizations of the state archives in the 19th century ultimately go back to this.

He has published extensive collections of sources and numerous archival reports - especially on the history of Belgium, the Netherlands and the 16th century. Emperor Charles V and King Philip II had a special meaning . a. in the " Biographie Nationale de Belgique " an article about the emperor, which would correspond to the size of a volume of several hundred pages. The basis for this was his source collections, etc. a. in Brussels as well as in Simancas in Spain and in the Escorial in Madrid .

Works

  • Collection de documens inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique . 1833-1835.
  • Correspondance de Philippe II sur les affaires des Pays-Bas . 4 volumes. Brussels 1848-1859.
  • Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne . 6 volumes. Brussels 1847-1858.
  • Retraite et mort de Charles-Quint . 3 volumes. Brussels 1854–1855.
  • Relations des troubles de Gand sous Charles-Quint. Brussels 1846.
  • Don Carlos et Philippe II. 2 volumes. Brussels 1863. 2nd edition Paris 1867.
  • Correspondance de Marguerite d'Autriche, duchesse de Parme avec Philippe II. 3 volumes. Brussels 1867–1881.
  • La Belgique sous Philippe V . Brussels 1868.
  • Histoire politique et diplomatique de Pierre-Paul Rubens . Brussels 1877.
  • Les bibliothèques de Madrid et de l'Escurial : Notices et extraits des manuscrits qui concernent l'histoire de la Belgique. 1875
  • Charles-Quint , in: Biographie Nationale, publiée par L'Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux arts de Belgique, tome troisième, Brussels 1872, pp. 523–960.

literature

  • Alfred von Reumont , Louis Prosper Gachard , in: HJb 7 (1886), pp. 238-265.
  • Walter Prevenier: Article Gachard, Louis-Prosper . In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Rainer A. Müller (Hrsg.): Historikerlexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century. Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-33997-2 , pp. 101f.

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personal data
SURNAME Gachard, Louis Prosper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian state archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1885
Place of death Brussels