Maxime de Bousies

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Count Maxime de Bousies (born August 18, 1865 in Harveng , Hainaut Province , Belgium - May 11, 1942 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode ) was a member of the International Olympic Committee for Belgium, politician , mountaineer , lawyer , poet and industrialist .

Life

After graduating from a Jesuit school in Mons , he studied social sciences and law at the KU Leuven , where he received his doctorate in law in 1890. His first bicycle tours in the Alps resulted in a fall in 1885, which left him deaf in one ear all his life. From 1894 to 1901 he was the first Belgian IOC member . Due to his personal economic circumstances ( shareholder of various stock corporations) he was able to assert himself against hostility from the Belgian gymnasts, who, like the Germans, decidedly refused to take part in the Olympic Games. Among other things, he was co-owner of the Vivinus factory , which produced bicycles and cars. In the latter he also took part in car races and in 1896 was one of the founding members of the Automobile Club of Belgium . He did not succeed in leading a Belgian delegation to the first Olympic Games in Athens , but in 1900 one to Paris . He then resigned from the IOC to make way for the emerging Belgian sports associations. From 1914 to 1921 he was Mayor of Harveng , where his parents' castle was located, before moving to Brussels . He spent the summers in the Alps, where he owned a house in Beatenberg (Canton Bern ) near the Jungfrau and Eiger . In 1890, he should of Chamonix from the Mont Blanc have climbed. He was awarded the Leopold Order (knight) for his services .

literature

  • Maxime de comte Bousies: Les lois successorales dans la société contemporaine. Palmé, Paris 1890. (Diss. Jur. KU Löwen)
  • Maxime de comte Bousies: Le collectivisme et ses conséquences. Société belge de librairie, Bruxelles 1894.
  • Maxime de comte Bousies: N'est pas skeptique qui veut; comédie en deux actes. E. Deman, Bruxelles 1895.
  • Maxime de comte bousies: Louisette comédie en deux actes. Edmon Deman, Bruxelles 1895.
  • Henri Marie Bruno Joseph Léon Kervyn de Lettenhove, Maxime de Bousies, George Charles Williamson, Paul-André Lemoisne , Paul Lambotte: L 'Exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles in 1912; recueil des oeuvres les plus remarquables des miniaturists de toutes les écoles, du xvie au xixe siècle. G. van Oest & cie, Bruxelles / Paris 1913.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Renson, W. Thielemans: Brekend olympisch nieuws: afbeeldingen van graaf Maxime de Bousies, first Belgian IOC-lid. In: Sportimonium. 25 (3-4), 2005, pp. 76-79.
  2. ↑ Y. Kupelian, J. Kupelian, J. Sirtaine: De geschiedenis van de Belgische auto: het fabelachtige verhaal van meer dan honderd car note . Lannoo, Tielt 1980.
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : Forgotton Decisions. The IOC on the Eve of World War I. In: Olympika. 6 (1), 1997, pp. 85-98.
  4. ↑ a b Roland Renson, Thomas Ameye: Maxime de Bousies. In: Journal of Olympic History. 17, 1, 2009, pp. 58-61.
personal data
SURNAME De Bousies, Maxime
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician, lawyer and member of the International Olympic Committee
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Harveng , Hainaut Province , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1942
Place of death Saint-Josse-ten-Noode