Hector A. Denis Papers

Period (1830) 1845-1913 (-1935)
Total size   0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Braine-le-Comte, Belgium 1842, died in Brussels 1913; politician, innovator in the field of economic history, one of the founders of labour statistics in Belgium; member of the Commission du Travail charged with the investigation of the sources for social conflicts, representing the socialist view in 1886; rector of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1892; in the same year member of the Conseil Supérieur du Travail; represented in parliament a progressive liberal and socialist alignment of Liège in 1894; one of the directors of the Institut des Sciences Sociales 1897-1902; member of the Institut Internationale de Statistique from 1886.

Content

Letters from J.J. Altmeyer, Charles de Coster, Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, Eugène Hins, Camille Huysmans, César de Paepe, Agathon de Potter and others; also a letter from Michail Bakunin, Comité Exécutif de la Commune (Delescluze, Félix Pyat), Aleksandr Gercen; copy of a letter from Filippo Buonarroti 1830; proof of the pamphlet on William Thompson n.d.

Processing information

Inventory by Tiny de Boer in 2005

Alternate Form of Material

Partly published in: Documents relatifs aux militants Belges de L'Association Internationale des Travailleurs. Correspondance 1865-1872. Textes réunis, établis et annotés par Daisy Eveline Devreese. Louvain/Bruxelles, 1986.