François Laurent

François Laurent ( born July 8, 1810 in Luxembourg, † February 11, 1887 in Ghent ) was a Luxembourgian jurist and historian.

Laurent studied at the universities of Leuven and Liege 's rights, was 1832-34 Bar in his native city, and received in 1835 the professor of civil law at the University of Ghent, where he died on 11 February 1887.

His distinguished by thoroughness of research, breadth of vision and ingenious ideas main works are:

• Études sur l' histoire de l' Humanité. Histoire du droit des gens (Brussels 1860-70, 18 vols );
• Principes de droit civil français ( Brussels 1869-79, 33 vols awards );
• Cours de droit civil français élémentaire (1878, 4 vols );
• Le droit civil international ( 1880-82, 8 vols ).

He also wrote several occasional writings in defense of liberal principles against the clericals:

• De la passion of catholiques pour la liberté (Gent 1850);
• Van Espen, étude historique sur l' Église et l' État en Belgique (Brussels 1860-63, 3 Tle, Vol 1 and 2 in 2nd edition 1865);
• Lettres d'un retardataire libéral à un progressiste catholique ( Brüssel., 1863, 2nd edition 1864);
• Lettres sur la question of Cimetières (Brussels 1864, 2 Tle );
• Lettres sur les Jésuites (Brussels 1865).

He has made ​​an enormous contribution by introducing the savings bank system in Belgium.

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• Historian
• Luxembourg
• Born in 1810
• Died in 1887
• Man