Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye

Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye ( born April 5, 1822 in Bruges, † January 3, 1892 in Doyon at Liege ) was a Belgian economist. He served from 1864 as professor at the University of Liège and was in 1873 one of the founders of the Institut de Droit International.

Life

Émile de Laveleye was born in 1822 in Bruges and graduated from the Collège Stanislas, a private school of the Catholic Oratory community in Paris, and later the Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Ghent. In 1864 he became a professor of economics at the University of Liège.

Three years later, he represented Belgium in the jury of the World's Fair of 1867. In September 1873 he was involved in the founding of the Institut de Droit international ( Institute of International Law ), an existing up to the present device, which in 1904 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He died in 1892 in Doyon at Liege.

Work

The activities of Émile de Laveleye covered wide areas of political science and economics, as well as issues of monetary policy, international law and international relations. In addition, he dealt with issues of education, religion, morality and literature, and created, for example, in 1861 a French translation of the Nibelungenlied. He felt particularly inclined towards the company in England, since these in many areas corresponded to its social, political and religious ideas.

Works (selection)

• La Russie et l' Autriche depuis Sadowa. Hachette, Paris 1870
• Essai sur les formes de gouvernement dans les Sociétés Modern. Germer Baillière, Paris 1872
• Causes of actuelles de guerre en Europe et de l' arbitrage. C. Muquardt, Brussels 1873
• De la proprieté et de ses formes primitives. Germer Baillière, Paris 1874
• La péninsule the Balkans. Vienne, Croatie, Bosnie, Serbie, Bulgarie, Roumélie, Turquie, Roumanie. The Hague and Brussels, 1886; German edition: The Balkans. Leipzig 1888 ( digitized from the holdings of the Institute of Eastern and Southeastern Europe Research: Part 1, Part 2)