Félicien Cattier

Félicien Cattier ( born March 4, 1869 in Cuesmes at Mons, † February 4, 1946 in Funchal, Madeira) was a Belgian lawyer.

He worked from 1906 as Professor of Public Law, particularly colonial law at the University of Brussels and from 1909 to 1911 as Dean of the Law School. In addition, he served as Vice- Governor of the Société Générale de Belgique and from 1932 to 1939 as president and in 1944 as President of the Union Board you minière skin Katanga, a state-owned mining company in the former Belgian colony of Congo. In his 1906 published book " Étude sur la situation de l' État indépendant du Congo " he critically examines the colonial practice of Belgium in the Congo apart after this in 1895, in the journal Revue de Droit International et de Legislation Comparee under the entitled " L' État indépendant du Congo et les indigènes " published articles had defended.

As of 1945, Félicien Cattier member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium. After him is named occurring mainly on the territory of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo Mineral Cattierit.

Works (selection)

• Droit et administration de l' État indépendant du Congo. Brussels 1898
• Étude sur la situation de l' État indépendant du Congo. Brussels and Paris 1906
• De l' use Secure the Days of Glory Organismes Politiques pour l' Administration des Colonies Inter Tropicales. Brussels 1907