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Camille Janssen

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Camille Janssen
Portrait of Janssen in c.1908
Governor-General of the Congo Free State
In office
30 July 1886 – 1 July 1892
MonarchLeopold II
Preceded byFrancis de Winton
(as Administrator-General)
Succeeded byThéophile Wahis
Personal details
Born(1837-12-05)5 December 1837
Liège, Belgium
Died18 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

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  • Janssens, Édouard; Cateaux, Albert (1908). "Janssen, Camille". Les Belges au Congo. Notices biographiques. Antwerp: Van Hille-De Backer. pp. 21–6.
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