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  1. Constantin Meunier

    Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 - 4 April 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born at Etterbeek, Brussels. His first exhibit was a plaster sketch, "The Garland," shown at the Brussels Salon in 1851. Soon afterwards, on the advice of the painter Charles de Groux, he abandoned the chisel for the brush. His first important painting, "The Salle St Roch" (1857), was followed by a series of paintings including "A Trappist Funeral" (1860), "Trappists Ploughing" (1863), …

  2. Paul Hymans

    Paul Hymans, was a Belgian politician associated with the Liberal Party. He was the first President of the short-lived League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33. Hymans was born in Ixelles/Elsene, Belgium and became Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920 (and again from 1927 to 1935), minister of justice from 1926 to 1927, and member of the council of ministers from 1935 to 1936. He represented Belgium at the 1919-1920 peace conference.

  3. Michel de Ghelderode

    Michel de Ghelderode was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French. He was born as Adhémar-Adolphe-Louis Martens in Ixelles and married in 1924 to Jeanne-Françoise Gérard. He died in Brussels. Among his influences are puppet theater and commedia dell'arte. His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death and degradation to religious exaltation.

  4. Emile Vandervelde

    Emile Vandervelde was a Belgian statesman, born at Ixelles. He studied law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and became doctor of laws in 1885 and doctor of social science in 1888.

  5. Jaco van Dormael

    Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957, Ixelles, Brussels) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.

  6. Jacques Feyder

    Jacques Feyder (July 21, 1885 - May 24, 1948) was a Belgian screenwriter and international film director who was one of the founders of poetic realism in French cinema. Born Jacques Frederix in Ixelles, Belgium, at age twenty-five he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film.

  7. Auguste Perret

    Auguste Perret (February 12, 1874 - February 25, 1954) was a French architect and a leader and specialist in concrete construction. In 2005 his post-WWII reconstruction of Le Havre was declared by UNESCO one of the World Heritage Sites. He was born in Ixelles, Belgium. He was the brother of the architect Gustave Perret. He worked on a new interpretation of the neo-classical style. He continued to carry the banner of nineteenth century rationalism after Viollet-le-Duc.

  8. Auguste Lameere

    Auguste Alfred Lucien Lameere is a Belgian entomologist, born in 1862 in Ixelles, and died in 1942. He was a professor and head (1906-1907) of the faculty of sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. An active member of the Royal Belgian Entomological Society, he was the author of numerous articles, notable on the colepterae, and the famous "Manuel de la Faune de Belgique" which had a great influence on the entomologists of his country.

  9. Neel Doff

    Neel Doff is the nom de plume of Cornelia Hubertina Doff: (b. Buggenum, Netherlands 27 January 1858 - d. Ixelles, Belgium 14 July 1942) She was a French author of Dutch speaking origin and one of the most important contributors to Proletarian Literature.

  10. Albert Mockel

    Albert Mockel was a Belgian Symbolist poet. Born in Ougrée, he was the editor of "La Wallonie", an influential journal of Belgian Symbolism. He died on January 1930 in Ixelles.

  11. Fernand Verhaegen

    Fernand Verhaegen (1883-1975) was a Belgian painter and etcher. He was born in Marchienne-au-Pont, near Charleroi in Wallonia. He took courses at the Academy for Fine Arts of Brussels from 1900 to 1906 and there became friends with Rik Wouters and Edgard Tytgat. After graduation he exhibited his works at many places in Belgium and abroad (Biennale of Venise in 1920 and 1922).

  12. Jean-Baptiste Moens

    Jean-Baptiste Moens was a Belgian philatelist and one of the first stamp dealers in the world. Born in Tournai, as a boy Moens began stamp collecting from his family's mail and packets and at age nineteen went into the business of buying and selling new and second-hand books plus stamps in 1852 and within a decade was putting out a stamp catalog with supplemental illustrations.

  13. August de Boeck

    Julianus Marie August de Boeck was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. From 1880 he studied organ at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels under Alphonse Mailly from whom he became an assistant until 1902. In 1889 he met the young Paul Gilson who became his close friend, and, despite their same age, his teacher for orchestration and his motivator for composition. He became an organist at various churches in Belgian villages (1892-1894 in Merchtem, …

  14. Jules de Burlet

    Jules Philippe Marie de Burlet (10 April 1844-1 March 1897) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ixelles, de Burlet was educated as a lawyer. He practised law in Nivelles, where he made his home, and he served as mayor of the town from 1872 to 1891. From 1884 he represented the Nivelles constituency in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives. In 1891 he became Interior minister and in 1894 he left the chamber and became a member of the Belgian Senate.

  15. Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler

    Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler, Belgian philologist, was born at Ebnat, Switzerland. His father, a German, was chaplain to King Leopold I of Belgium, and Jean Scheler, after studying at Bonn and Munich, became King's librarian, and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His investigations in Romance philology earned him a wide reputation. He died at Ixelles, Belgium, in 1890.

  16. Jules Renkin

    Jules Laurent Jean Louis Renkin (3 December 1862-15 July 1934) was a Belgian politician. Born in Ixelles, Renkin studied and practised law, and helped found the journal "L'Avenir Sociale". In 1896 he was elected as a member of the Catholic Party to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for Brussels, a seat he held until his death. Original on the Christian Democratic wing of the party, Renkin's views became more conservative with time.

  17. Leo Joseph Suenens

    Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens (July 16, 1904-May 6, 1996) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel from 1961 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962. Suenens was a leading liberal voice at the Second Vatican Council, and an advocate of reform in the Church.

  18. Radu Bălescu

    Radu Bălescu was a Romanian and Belgian (Belgian since 1959) scientist and professor at the "Statistical and Plasma Physics" group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He studied at the Titu Maiorescu high school, in Bucharest (1943 - 1948) and the Athénée Royal d'Ixelles (1948 - 1950). At the ULB (1950 - 1958) he studied chemistry and obtained a PhD in 1958. He started his academic career in 1957 at the ULB as an assistant (with Prof.

  19. Eugène Defacqz

    Henri-Eugene-Marie Defacqz (Ath, 17 September, 1797-Ixelles, 1 December, 1871) was a Belgian liberal politician and a magistrate.

  20. Muriel Houtteman

    Muriel Houttemann (* May 7, 1972 in Ixelles, Belgium), also known as Fili (Mol-)Houteman, is a former belgian Stripper who had a love affaire with Daniel Ducruet which led to his divorce from Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.

  21. Aimée Bologne-Lemaire

    Aimée Bologne-Lemaire was a Belgian feminist, member of the resistance, and Walloon activist. Estelle Aimée Lemaire was born into a middle class family in Saint-Gilles. Her father was a lawyer, socialist and university professor; her mother was a school teacher. Aimée studied at the ULB, where she joined the student socialist society, graduating in 1926. She became a teacher, first in Charleroi, then in Ixelles until 1943, …

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  30. Maurice Rabinowicz

    Maurice Rabinowicz is a Belgian film director and writer. He studied theatre at the "Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle" (INSAS) in Brussels, graduating in 1970. His style of film-making has been described as Brechtian.

  31. Sarah

    Etudiante photog�nique, amoureuse, r�veuse, angoiss�e, obs�d�e, tr�s trop �norme gourmande, espiegle, attachante, marrante, trop chiante, maniaque, coquette, d�moniaque, bord�lique, po�te, princesse!

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