Camille Janssen
Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer
Camille Janssen | |
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 Portrait of Janssen in c.1908 | |
| Governor-General of the Congo Free State | |
| In office 30 July 1886 – 1 July 1892 | |
| Monarch | Leopold II |
| Preceded by | Francis de Winton (as Administrator-General) |
| Succeeded by | Théophile Wahis |
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| Born | (1837-12-05)5 December 1837 Liège, Belgium |
| Died | 18 April 1926(1926-04-18) (aged 88) Brussels, Belgium |
Camille Janssen (5 December 1837–18 April 1926) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who held the position of Governor-General of the Congo Free State from 1886 to 1892. After 1893, Joseph Chailley would found the International Colonial Institute, for which Janssen would be the secretary-general. His son, Georges Janssen, would become head of the National Bank of Belgium.
Further reading
- Janssens, Édouard; Cateaux, Albert (1908). "Janssen, Camille". Les Belges au Congo. Notices biographiques. Antwerp: Van Hille-De Backer. pp. 21–6.
External links
- Janssen, Camille at Biographie Coloniale Belge
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- Camille Janssen
- Théophile Wahis
- Théophile Wahis
- Félix Fuchs
- Eugène Henry
- Maurice Lippens
- Martin Rutten
- Auguste Tilkens
- Pierre Ryckmans
- Eugène Jungers
- Léo Pétillon
- Hendrik Cornelis
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