Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen [SEP] date of death
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (5 September 1796 – 8 December 1862) was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician, known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (from 28 June 1848 to 28 September 1852 and from 17 December 1857 to June 1859).
Family history.
He was born in Brussels, where he lived his whole life, and part of a Catholic family of lawyers from the region of Haacht. The Verhaegens
-Verhaegen. The formal celebration consists in faculty honouring Verhaegen by placing flowers at his tomb. Concurrently, thousands of students from both universities have a daylong party and procession through downtown Brussels.
Sources.
- Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
- Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
- "Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (1796–1862)", VUBPRESS, 1996