Patrice de Coninck

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Patrice de Coninck

Patrice Charles Ghislain de Coninck (born November 19, 1770 in Bruges , † May 22, 1827 ibid) was a southern Dutch lawyer and politician .

family

De Coninck was born in 1770 as the son of Marie-Amelie van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1748-1830) and Baudouin de Coninck († 1770) in Bruges. His father died before he was born. The mother married Joseph de Colnet de Gloriette (1744-1818) for the second time. Patrice de Coninck himself married Françoise-Augustine van Outryve (1777-1837) in 1797. His wife's father, Jean-Jacques van Outryve de Merckem, objected to their marriage because de Coninck was not wealthy and his daughter was the sole heir. With his wife, de Coninck only had the son Theodore (1807–1855).

Career

De Coninck studied law at the Universities of Leuven and Cologne . He then became a lawyer in Bruges. He became a member of the prefectural council of the Lys department and was then from 1802 to 1805 prefect of the Ain department . From 1805 he was prefect of the Jemappes department and stayed there until 1810. From May 10, 1810 to January 10, 1811 he was prefect of the Escaut department and then took over the post of prefect in the Bouches de l'Elbe department in Hamburg . There he stayed until 1814. After the end of the First French Empire , he was from April 22, 1815 to August 1815 member of the Constitutional Commission of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands .

From September 15, 1815 to February 21, 1817 he was Governor of East Flanders . On February 21, 1817, he became Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands and remained in office until June 19, 1825. On June 23, 1825, he became Foreign Minister of the Netherlands and held this office until December 1, 1825. De Coninck fell ill at the end of 1825 and retired to Bruges. On March 16, 1826 he got the title of Minister of State .

Awards

In 1810 Coninck was raised to the French nobility as Baron d'empire . In 1816 he was accepted as a knight in the Dutch nobility.

literature

  • M. Siegenbeek: Levensbericht van PCG baron de Coninck , in: Handelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1827
  • A. van der Meersch: Le chevalier Patrice de Coninck, homme d'état , in: Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Tome IV, Brussel, 1873, col. 893-895
  • Reina E. van Ditzhuyzen: Patrice Charles Ghislain ridder De Coninck 1770-1827. in: Onderwijs as opdracht. Leven en werk van de eerste vijftien ministers charged with het onderwijs in de period 1798-1830, The Hague, Staatsuitgeverij, 1977
  • Patrice-Charles-Ghislain de Coninck-Outrive in: Hamburgische Biografie , Volume VI, pp. 60–61
  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : "French times" in Northern Germany (1803-1814). Napoleon's Hanseatic Departements, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-861-08384-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awards after Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont; Biographies nationales: la noblesse belge. Brussels 1850, p. 428
personal data
SURNAME Coninck, Patrice de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coninck, Patrice Charles Ghislain de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Southern Dutch lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1827
Place of death Bruges