Goswin de Stassart

Goswin Joseph Augustin Baron de Marnix ( born September 2, 1780 in Mechelen, † October 16th 1854 in Brussels) was a Dutch- Belgian politician.

Life

Marnix studied law in Paris, was ibid. 1804 Legal Assistant in the French Council of State, received in 1805 a commissariat in the Tyrol and in 1807 in the French Army in Prussia. In 1810 he was prefect of the department of Vaucluse and 1811 of the Meuse estuaries. After the second restoration he lived on his estate near Namur, until the city of Namur in 1822 sent him to the Dutch Second Chamber of the States General, where he belonged to the opposition. After the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution in Brussels in September 1830, he was among the deputies of the southern provinces, which contributed to the convening of the chamber to The Hague episode. In 1831 he went back to Belgium, where he was elected to Congress and a member of the provisional government and then the Senate. In this position he held seven sessions through the office of President, while he has also been appointed by the government in 1834 to the Governor of Brabant, but lost in 1838 these two dignities, because he had broken as Grand Master of Belgian Freemasonry openly with the same feuding episcopate. In 1840 he was for a short time envoy to Turin. In 1841, he put his dignity down as Grand Master of Belgian Freemasonry. He died on 16 October 1854 in Brussels.

Works

His writings collected ( memoranda, speeches, reviews, etc., but especially admirable fables ) published Brussels 1854.