Édouard Descamps

Edouard Eugène François Descamps ( born August 27, 1847 in Beloeil, † January 17, 1933 in Brussels) was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He worked among other things as a professor of international law at the Catholic University of Louvain, from 1898 to 1932 as a member of the Belgian Senate, and from 1907 to 1910 as Minister of Arts and Sciences in his home country. In recognition of his work, he was, among others, in the Institut de Droit International, the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium ( historically ), the Institut de France and the French Legion of Honor was added.

Life

Edouard Descamps was born in 1847 in Beloeil and studied at the Catholic University of Louvain, which he later graduated in 1869 with a doctorate in law and one year in politics and political science. In 1872 he was appointed to the University of Louvain Extraordinary and five years later a full professor of international law. From 1898 to 1932 he was one of the Katholieke Partij in the Belgian Senate and was during this period from 1901 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1914 as Vice President. In the years 1907-1910 he served as Minister of Arts and Sciences.

In addition, he served as General Secretary and President of the Inter -Parliamentary Union and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Was much involved Edouard Descamps in the drafting of the Statute of existing from 1922 Permanent Court of International Justice ( StIGH ), which was superseded by the 1945 up to the present existing International Court of Justice. At the first election judges for the StIGH in September 1921, he was nominated by Belgium, Greece and Japan. However, it was not chosen because he carried the bodies of the League of Nations, although the Council has received the necessary majority of votes in the vote, but not at the meeting.

Edouard Descamps died in 1933 in Brussels.

Awards

Edouard Descamps belonged from 1892 to the Institut de Droit international and headed its 1902 to be held in Brussels 20th meeting. In the period from 1900 to 1906 he served as Secretary of the Institute. From the Catholic University of Louvain, he was appointed Honorary Professor, as well as the Universities of Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, an honorary doctorate. In addition, he was a member, and at times President of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium and an associate member of the Institut de France and Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour.

Works (selection)

• Le droit de la paix et de la guerre. Essai sur l' évolution de la Neutralité et sur ​​la constitution du pacigérat. Paris 1898
• La neutralité de la Belgique au point de vue historique, diplomatique juridique et politique: étude sur la constitution of pacifiques états à titre permanently. Paris and Brussels, 1902
• L' Afrique nouvelle. Essai sur l' état ​​civilisateur dans les pays et sur ​​la fondation neufs, l' organization et le gouvernement de l' État indépendant du Congo. Paris 1903
• Le genie des religions. Les origines. Avec un essai sur la vérité Liminaire, la certitude, la science et la civilization. Paris 1930
• Histoire Générale des missions comparée. Paris and Brussels, 1932