Lucien Jottrand

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucien Jottrand

Lucien Joseph Léopold Jottrand (born January 30, 1804 in Genappe , † December 17, 1877 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode ) was a Belgian journalist and politician.

Life

Jottrand studied at the University of Liege Law and was after his doctorate in 1825 solicitor at the court in Brussels . From 1826 he gained particular importance as editor of the opposition newspaper Courrier des Pays-Bas , which he took over in 1832 as owner and editor-in-chief under the name Courrier de Belge . During the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Jottrand designed the future national flag of Belgium together with the journalist Édouard Ducpétiaux . In 1830 he became a member of the National Congress. Co-founder of the Association Démocratique in 1847 and its president. In March 1848, he was negotiating through the mediation of Count Theophil von Hompesch about the abdication of Leopold I . In 1847 he founded the newspaper Le Débat social. Organs de la democratie . Jottrand wrote to Karl Marx on May 19, 1848 that he welcomed his Neue Rheinische Zeitung . In 1856 Jottrand was chairman of a Flemish commission set up by the king that year. 1855-1861 he was a councilor in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, where he also worked as a lawyer .

He wrote numerous mostly French, but also Dutch works on law and political science, history, geology and linguistics as well as biographies about his fellow fighters in the 1848 revolution in Belgium.

Works

  • Dissertatio inauguralis juridica de Certamine singulari . Lignac, Leodii 1825.
  • Le Pape et la démocratie, par un ancien membre du Congrés national . Lelong, Bruxelles 1838.
  • Guarantees de l'existence du Royaume des Pay-Bas . Librairie Romantique, Bruxelles 1829.
  • Des rapports politiques et commerciaux de la Belgique et de la France . Decp, Bruxelles 1841.
  • La nouvelle consitution de New-York pour 1847 . Avec un commentaire. Bruxelles 1847.
  • Le suffrage universal. Nouvelle theory et nouvelle application de ce systéme électoral. de D. Raes, Bruxelles 1848.
  • Londres au point de vue belge . C. Muquardt, Bruxelles 1852.
  • D'Anvers à Gênes, par les pays rhénans, la Suisse, la Savoie et le Piémont, et back par Marseille et le sud [-] est de la France. Etudes diverse . Delevingne et Callewaert, Bruxelles 1854.
  • Louis De Potter . Bruxelles 1860.
  • Charles-Louis Spilthoorn . Evénements de 1848 en Belgique . Bruxelles 1872.

literature

  • Association Démocratique, ayant pour but l'union et la fraternité de tous les peuples. An early international democratic association in Brussels 1847–1848 . Edited by Bert Andréas , Jacques Gandjonc and Hans Pelger. Arranged by Helmut Elsner and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 2004. 765 pp. ISBN 3-86077-847-1 (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus 44)
  • Fragments on international democratic activities around 1848 (M. Bakunin, F. Engels, F. Mellinet and others) . Ed. And edit. by Helmut Elsner, Jacques Grandjonc, Elisabeth Neu and Hans Pelger. Trier 2000 444 pp. ISBN 3-86077-545-6 (= writings from Karl-Marx-Haus 48)

Web links

Commons : Lucien Jottrand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The newspaper stopped appearing in mid-1848.
  2. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 2, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 450-451.
  3. ↑ "A letter from Jottrand to me at the time of the foundation of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (Jottrand belongs to the so-called American school of the Republicans, so a direction alien to me) [...] sufficiently show my position in the democratic party in Brussels." (Karl Marx: Herr Vogt 1860 In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department I. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 273 f .; Marx-Engels-Werke Volume 14, p. 618 f.)
personal data
SURNAME Jottrand, Lucien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jottrand, Lucien Joseph Léopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Genappe
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1877
Place of death Saint-Josse-ten-Noode