Camille Janssen
Appearance
Camille Janssen | |
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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 |
Personal details | |
Born | Liège, Belgium | 5 December 1837
Died | 18 April 1926 Brussels, Belgium | (aged 88)
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
[edit]- Janssens, Édouard; Cateaux, Albert (1908). "Janssen, Camille". Les Belges au Congo. Notices biographiques. Antwerp: Van Hille-De Backer. pp. 21–6.
External links
[edit]- Janssen, Camille at Biographie Coloniale Belge