Henri de Brouckère
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Jonkheer
Jonkheer
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 Henri Ghislain Joseph Marie Hyacinthe de Brouckère (25 January 1801, Bruges
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 – 25 January 1891) was a Belgian
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 nobleman and liberal politician. Born in Bruges
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, he was a magistrate, and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
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. His brother Charles
Charles de Brouckère
Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician.Born in Bruges, elder brother of future Prime Minister of Belgium Henri de Brouckère, Charles entered politics in the period when modern Belgium formed the southern part of the United Kingdom of the...

 was mayor of Brussels
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He served as governor of Antwerp
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 from 1840 to 1844, and of Liège
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 from 1844 to 1846. He headed a Liberal government from 1852 to 1855 as the ninth Prime Minister. In 1863 he became the first mayor of Auderghem
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