Everything about Jean-baptiste Nothomb totally explained
Jean Baptiste, Baron Nothomb (
July 3,
1805—
September 6,
1881) was a
Belgian statesman and diplomat.
Life
Revolution
Born at
Messancy in
Luxemburg on
3 July 1805, he was educated at the Athenaeum of Luxemburg and the
University of Liege, and was in Luxemburg when the
Revolution of August broke out, but was nominated a member of the commission appointed to draw up the
Constitution.
Nothomb became a member of the national congress, and became secretary-general of the ministry of foreign affairs under
Érasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier. He supported the candidature of the
Orléanist Louis, Duke of Nemours, and joined in the proposal to offer the crown to
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, being one of the delegates sent to
London.
When the
Eighteen Articles of the
Treaty of London were replaced by the Twenty-four less favorable to
Belgium, he insisted on the necessity of compliance, and in 1839 he faced violent opposition to support the territorial cessions in
Limburg and Luxemburg, which had remained an open question so long as the
Netherlands refused to acknowledge the
Twenty-four Articles.
Later life
His
Essai historique et politique sur la révolution belge (1838) won for him the praise of Palmerston and the cross of the
Legion of Honor from
French king Louis Philippe. In 1837 he became minister of public works, and to him was largely due the rapid development of the
Belgian railway system, and the increase in the
mining industry.
In 1840 he was sent as Belgian envoy to the
German Confederation, and in 1841, on the fall of the Lebeau ministry, he organized the new cabinet, reserving for himself the portfolio of minister of the interior. In 1845 he was defeated, and retired from the
Belgian Parliament, but he held a number of diplomatic appointments before his death in
Berlin.
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