Auguste Joseph Duvivier (12 December 1772 – 1 July 1846) was a Belgian liberal politician and Minister of Finance.
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Biography
editDuvivier was born in Mons on 12 December 1772. He had two brothers, Vincent Duvivier and Ignace Louis Duvivier, who also served in the military.[1]
Auguste Duvivier studied medicine and graduated from the University of Leuven. He then pursued a specialization in Paris. He did not fully practice medicine, but was professor of natural history at the Central School of Jemmape in 1798.[2]
He then made a career in administration under the Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Biographie nationale, Volume 6", Académie royale de Belgique, 1878
- ^ "Chambre des représentants de Belgique DUVIVIER". unionisme.be. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
- ^ Charles Poplimont, "La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique, Volume 4", 1866