Jean-Baptiste Nothomb
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb | |
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Prime Minister of Belgium | |
In office 13 April 1841 – 30 July 1845 | |
Monarch | Leopold I |
Preceded by | Joseph Lebeau |
Succeeded by | Sylvain Van de Weyer |
Personal details | |
Born | Messancy, France (now Belgium) | 3 July 1805
Died | 16 September 1881 Berlin, Germany | (aged 76)
Political party | Liberal Party |
Alma mater | University of Liège |
Jean-Baptiste, Baron Nothomb (French pronunciation:
Life
Revolution
Born at Messancy in Luxembourg on 3 July 1805, he was educated at the Athénée de Luxembourg and the University of Liège, and was in Luxemburg when the Revolution of August broke out, but was nominated a member of the commission appointed to draw up the Constitution.[2]
Nothomb became a member of the national congress, and became secretary-general of the ministry of foreign affairs under
When the Eighteen Articles of the
Later life
His Essai historique et politique sur la révolution belge (1838) won for him the praise of Palmerston and the cross of the
In 1840 he was sent as Belgian envoy to the German Confederation, and in 1841, on the fall of the Lebeau ministry, he organized the new cabinet, reserving for himself the portfolio of minister of the interior. In 1845 he was defeated, and retired from the Belgian Parliament, but he held a number of diplomatic appointments before his death in Berlin.[2]
Honours
- Anhalt : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Albert the Bear.[3]
Kingdom of Belgium : Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold.[3]
Kingdom of Prussia : Knight 1st Class; Order of the Red Eagle.[3]
Kingdom of France : Knight Grand Cross in the Legion of Honour.[3]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[3]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Zähringer Lion.[3]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Charles III.[3]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Saint Michael.[3]
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Philip the Magnanimous.[3]
Kingdom of Portugal :
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Knight Grand Cross in the Saxe-Ernestine House Order.[3]
- Officer in the Order of the Southern Cross .[3]
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nothomb, Jean Baptiste, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 823. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .