See also:BARON DE See also:ETIENNE CONSTANTIN See also:GERLACHE
(1785
r871), Belgian politician and historian, was See also:born at Biourge, See also:Luxemburg, on the 24th of See also:December 1785
.
He studied See also:law in See also:Paris and practised there for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but settled at See also:Liege after the See also:establishment of the See also:kingdom of the See also:Netherlands
.
As member of the states-See also:general he was an energetic member of the opposition, and, though he repudiated an ultramontane policy, he supported the See also:alliance of the extreme Catholics with the Liberal party, which paved the way for the revolution of 183o
.
On the outbreak of disturbance in See also:August 1830 he still, however, thought the See also:Orange-See also:Nassau See also:dynasty and the See also:union with the Dutch states essential; but his views changed, and, after holding various offices in the provisional See also:government, he became See also:president of See also:congress, and brought forward the See also:motion inviting See also:Leopold of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg to become See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Belgians
.
In 1832 he was president of the chamber of representatives, and for See also:thirty-five years he presided over the See also:court of See also:appeal
.
He presided over the See also:Catholic congresses held at See also:Malines between 1863 and 1867
.
That his See also:early Liberal views underwent some modification is See also:plain from the Conservative principles enunciated in his Essai sur le mouvement See also:des partis en Belgique (See also:Brussels, 1852)
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As an historian his See also:work was strongly coloured by his See also:anti-Dutch prejudices and his Catholic predilections
.
His Histoire des Pays-Bas depuis 1814 jusqu'en 183o (Brussels, 2 vols., 1839), which reached a See also:fourth edition in 1875, was a piece of See also:special See also:pleading against the Dutch domination
.
The most important of his other See also:works were his Histoire de Liege (Brussels, 1843) and his Etudes sur Salluste et sur quelques-uns des principaux historiens de l'antiquite (Brussels, 1847)
.
A See also:complete edition of his works (6 vols., Brussels, 1874–1875) contains a See also:biography by M
.
Thonissen
.
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