Book contents
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Law and Christianity
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Law, Christianity, and Secularization in the Low Countries
- 1 Alger of Liège
- 2 Arnoldus Gheyloven
- 3 Boëtius Epo
- 4 Leonardus Lessius
- 5 Franciscus Zypaeus
- 6 Hugo Grotius
- 7 Paulus Voet
- 8 Ulrik Huber
- 9 Zeger-Bernard van Espen
- 10 Dionysius van der Keessel
- 11 Pieter Paulus
- 12 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
- 13 Edouard Ducpétiaux
- 14 Charles Périn
- 15 Léon de Lantsheere
- 16 Paul Scholten
- 17 Willem Duynstee
- 18 Jules Storme
- 19 Herman Dooyeweerd
- 20 Josse Mertens de Wilmars
- Index
- References
15 - Léon de Lantsheere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2021
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Law and Christianity
- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Law, Christianity, and Secularization in the Low Countries
- 1 Alger of Liège
- 2 Arnoldus Gheyloven
- 3 Boëtius Epo
- 4 Leonardus Lessius
- 5 Franciscus Zypaeus
- 6 Hugo Grotius
- 7 Paulus Voet
- 8 Ulrik Huber
- 9 Zeger-Bernard van Espen
- 10 Dionysius van der Keessel
- 11 Pieter Paulus
- 12 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
- 13 Edouard Ducpétiaux
- 14 Charles Périn
- 15 Léon de Lantsheere
- 16 Paul Scholten
- 17 Willem Duynstee
- 18 Jules Storme
- 19 Herman Dooyeweerd
- 20 Josse Mertens de Wilmars
- Index
- References
Summary
Léon de Lantsheere was born in Brussels on 23 September 1862 into a renowned Catholic family rooted in the region of Dendermonde. His grandfather was a physician, while his father Théophile-Charles-André de Lantsheere (1833–1918) studied law in Leuven, worked as a lawyer in Brussels, and became increasingly involved in several business companies. Théophile de Lantsheere had a remarkable public career as a member (1872–1900) and chair (1884–1905) of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, Minister of Justice (1871–1878), chair (stafhouder) of the Brussels Bar (1887), vice-governor (1899–1905) and governor (1905–1918) of the Belgian National Bank, and as a senator (1900–1905). In 1890 he was granted the title of Minister of State, and in 1913 he was raised to the nobility with the hereditary title of viscount. Léon de Lantsheere was his oldest son. Léon’s older sister Nathalie (1861–1931) would enter the so-called ‘English Convent’ in Bruges as a regular canoness of Saint Augustine. The second sister, Alice (1864–1944), married the Brussels notary Louis Vergote (1861–1907), and his younger brother Auguste (1870–1932) came to be governor of the Société Générale and lord mayor of Meldert.
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- Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries , pp. 266 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021