Alphonse-Jules Wauters
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Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845–1916) was a Belgian art historian, geographer, and magazine editor.[1]
Life
[edit]Wauters was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 June 1845. In 1887 he became a professor of Art History at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1894 a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.[2]
His passion, however, was geography. He became Secretary of the Brussels Geographical Society, and founded and edited two geographical journals, Le Mouvement Géographique (1884–1922) and the shorter-lived Le Congo illustré (1891–1895), which supported projects for colonisation in Central Africa.[3] Wauters died in Ixelles, Belgium, on 25 March 1916.
Works
[edit]- La peinture flamande (Paris, 1883)
- English edition as The Flemish School of Painting, tr. H. Rossel (London, 1885)
- Dutch edition as De Vlaamsche Schilderkunst, tr. J. Sabbe (Ghent, 1887)
- Carte de l'état indépendant du Congo, dressée d'après les derniers renseignements (Brussels, 1887)
- Liste chronologique des doyens des corps de métiers de Bruxelles de 1696 à 1795 (Brussels, 1888)
- Croquis de la region entre la Côte de Guinée et Timbouctou (Brussels, 1888)
- Le Congo : dix ans d'exploration (Brussels, 1888)
- Stanley au secours d'Émin-Pacha (Paris, 1890)
- published in English as Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition (London, 1890)
- with A. Buyl, Bibliographie du Congo, 1880-1895 (Brussels, 1895)
- Carte du Bas Congo donnant le tracé du chemin de fer de Matadi au Stanley Pool (Brussels, 1896)
- Denis van Alsloot, peintre des archiducs Albert et Isabelle (Brussels, 1899)
- L'état indépendant du Congo (Brussels, 1899)
- Le Musée de Bruxelles. Tableaux anciens. Notice, guide & catalogue (Brussels, 1900)
- Album de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 80 reproductions hors texte d'oeuvres exposées à Bruxelles en 1905 avec catalogue et notices biographiques (Brussels, 1906)
- Histoire politique du Congo belge (Brussels, 1911)
References
[edit]- ^ "Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845-1916) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ R. Cambier, Wauters (Alphonse Jules), Biographie Coloniale Belge, vol. 2 (1951), 969-972.
- ^ Elise Henry, "Le Mouvement Géographique, entre géographie et propagande coloniale", Belgeo: Revue Belge de Géographie 1 (2008), pp. 27-46.
External links
[edit]- Newspaper clippings about Alphonse-Jules Wauters in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Alphonse-Jules Wauters, Royal Museum for Central Africa
