Jonkheer

Jonkheer

Jonkheer is a Dutch honorific of nobility.-Honorific of nobility:"Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw" is literally translated as "young lord" or "young lady". In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman...

 Henri Ghislain Joseph Marie Hyacinthe de Brouckère (25 January 1801, Bruges

Bruges

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 – 25 January 1891) was a Belgian

Belgium

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 nobleman and liberal politician. Born in Bruges

Bruges

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, he was a magistrate, and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

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. His brother Charles

Charles de Brouckère

Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician.Born in Bruges, elder brother of future Prime Minister of Belgium Henri de Brouckère, Charles entered politics in the period when modern Belgium formed the southern part of the United Kingdom of the...

 was mayor of Brussels

Brussels

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He served as governor of Antwerp

Antwerp (province)

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 from 1840 to 1844, and of Liège

Liège (province)

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 from 1844 to 1846. He headed a Liberal government from 1852 to 1855 as the ninth Prime Minister. In 1863 he became the first mayor of Auderghem

Auderghem

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