Adolphe Quetelet

id : 88

types : Person

keywords :

description : Researcher

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet

description

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet is an eclectic scientist who initiated many scientific institutions, including an observatory in Brussels, the first international congress of statistics and the first international maritime conference leading to the creation of the International Meteorological Organization.

Auguste Couvreur

id : 123

types : Person

keywords :

description : Politician

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Couvreur

description

A liberal politician, Auguste Couvreur held several important positions during his life: founder of the Society for Social and Political Studies, President of the Education League, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Belgium. He meets Henri La Fontaine at the Amis Philanthropes.

Auguste Beernaert

id : 25

types : Person

keywords :

description : Politician and Nobel laureate

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Beernaert

description

A Catholic politician, Auguste Beernaert was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909. He represented Belgium at the first peace congress of La Haye in 1899.

Andrew Carnegie

id : 27

types : Person

keywords :

description : Industry magnate, patron of libraries

country : United States

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

description

Andrew Carnegie was an industry tycoon who devoted his fortune to numerous philanthropic foundations, supporting in particular international peace and libraries around the world.

Edmond Picard

id : 43

types : Person

keywords :

description : Lawyer, jurist

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Picard

description

This important jurist wrote an encyclopedia about Belgian jurisprudence. He got himself involved in politics where he fought for the universal suffrage and became a socialist senator.

Charles Ammi Cutter

id : 94

types : Person

keywords :

description : Researcher

country : United States

outside link : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/savoirscdi/societe-de-linformation/le-monde-du-livre-et-de-la-presse/histoire-du-livre-et-de-la-documentation/biographies/charles-ammi-cutter-1837-1903-bibliothecaire-americain-pere-de-lexpansive-classification.html

description

Charles Ammi Cutter he took up a position in the library of the Havard Divinity School in 1856. His career led him to become a library specialist: he became chief curator and worked on his own classification technique, Expansive Classification, which led him into conflict with Melvil Dewey.

Charles Buls

id : 26

types : Person

keywords :

description : Politician, founder of the League of Education

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Buls

description

Mayor of Brussels (1881-1899), Charles Buls was a liberal politician and the founder of the Ligue de l'Enseignement. A freemason, he belonged to the same lodge as Henri La Fontaine, Les Amis Philanthropes.

Bertha Von Suttner

id : 52

types : Person

keywords :

description : Writer, pacifist

country : Austria

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner

description

Bertha Von Suttner was an Austrian pacifist activist, best known for her novel Down with Arms. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.

Annie Besant

id : 92

types : Person

keywords :

description : Activist

country : United Kingdom

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant

description

Annie Besant was a politician and theosophist. She pursued a political career committed to the workers' struggle, women's rights, freedom of opinion and finally for the independence of India. After her studies in science at University College London, she taught public courses in popular education. She will be at the initiative of the meeting between Otlet, Delville and Khrisnamurti.

Charles Richet

id : 45

types : Person

keywords :

description : Scholar, pacifist

country : France

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richet

description

Pacifist and patriot, Charles Richet is a French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1913. He participates in the CDU. Some of his works are now judged eugenics. He also carries out research on the paranormal.

Désiré-Joseph Mercier

id : 95

types : Person

keywords :

description : Activist

country : Belgium

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9-Joseph_Mercier

description

Often referred to as "Cardinal Mercier", he is the forerunner of ecumenism: a gathering of the different currents of Christianity, despite their doctrinal differences. While Belgium was occupied by the Germans, he became a figure of the moral resistance he embodied in the country.

Charles Langlois

id : 93

types : Person

keywords :

description : Librarian

country : France

outside link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Victor_Langlois

description

He undertakes a university career in history and serves as director of the National Archives between 1922 and 1923. He is elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1917 and becomes its president in 1925. In the meantime he is also president of the Société de l'Histoire de France. A jurist, archivist and intellectual figure of knowledge organization, he examines Otlet's projects but perceives him as megalomaniac. He is therefore rather an adversary of the Otlet's projects.