Victor Larock
Victor Joseph Léonard Larock (6 October 1904, in Ans – 24 April 1977, in Madrid) was a Belgian politician for the country's Socialist Party.
Biography
Larock was the son of a miner. He obtained his doctor's title in literature and philosophy at the University of Liège in 1926 and in sociology at the Sorbonne. During his studies of sociology in Paris he first came in contact with the leftist intellectuals there. From 1932 to 1949 he was a lecturer in history at the Royal Atheneum of Ixelles and the Institut des Hautes Etudes in Ghent.
From the mid-1930s until the eve of the
After the war, Larock became one of the main actors at the first postwar Belgian Socialist Party congress and became a member of the national party administration. He opposed the return of
Larock pleaded in favour of a new
Larock's last ministerial position was at the government of Théo Lefèvre as the Minister of National Education and Culture.[9] On 31 July 1963 he resigned because he did not agree with Arthur Gilson's new law on the use of language in education. From 1965 to 1968, he led the socialist fraction in the
He was born in Ans and died in Madrid.
Football
In 1919 he became a member of the football club
Publicaties
- La pensée mythique, Brussels, 1945.
- Un aspect de la question royale. A quand la lumière? , Brussels, 1948.
- La grande cause. Chroniques, Ghent, 1953.
- Éloge de la folie, Brussels, 1957 (annotated translation of In Praise of Folly).
- Larock, Victor (1930). "Les premières conceptions psychologiques des Grecs". . Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- Larock, Victor (1946). "The Socialist Party". S2CID 144251039. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
References
- . Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Mr Victor LAROCK". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Methods by which the Council of Europe can develop cultural cooperation between its members" (PDF). Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Victor Larock". Belelite. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ISBN 3-11-009724-9
- ^ "M. VICTOR LAROCK REMPLACE M. SPAAK DANS LE CABINET BELGE". Le Monde. 13 May 1957. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ Van Parijs, Philippe (18 September 2017). "Brussels's European Quarter – Why in Brussels? Why in this neighbourhood?". Brussels. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- CVCE. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Victor Larock". Belelite. Retrieved 4 January 2021.