Auguste Orts
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Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts (Brussels
Brussels
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, 7 April 1814-Brussels, 3 November 1880), was a Belgian
Belgium
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 lawyer and liberal
Liberal Party (Belgium)
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 politician.

Auguste Orts was a Lawyer
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, magistrate
Magistrate
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, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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 and alderman
Alderman
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 of Brussels. He was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 19 July 1859 until 18 July 1860 and Minister of State
Minister of State
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Source

  • Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts
  • Mesdach de ter Kiele, in : Biographie Nationale, Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XVI, 1901, kol. 334-342.
  • Vanderkindere, L., L'Université de Bruxelles 1834-1884, Brussel, 1884, p. 183-184.
  • De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (ed.), Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, p. 447-448.
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