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Étienne Constantin de Gerlache

1785 - 1871

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Étienne Constantin, Baron de Gerlache (French pronunciation: [etjɛn kɔ̃stɑ̃tɛ̃ baʁɔ̃ də ʒɛʁlaʃ]; 26 December 1785 – 10 February 1871) was a lawyer and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and later became in 1831 the first prime minister of the newly founded Belgian state. He was born as son of Francois de Gerlache and Margarethe de Groulart. He studied law in Paris and practised there for some time, but settled at Liège after the establishment of the kingdom of the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Constantin de Gerlache has received more than 45,786 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Étienne Constantin de Gerlache is the 14,421st most popular politician (down from 12,458th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 497th in 2019) and the 124th most popular Belgian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache ranks 14,421 out of 19,576Before him are Robert Bacon, Alboin of Spoleto, José López Domínguez, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Robert Abela, and Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Nurul Amin, Niels Neergaard, Shapur-i Shahrvaraz, Bagrat V of Georgia, Laurance Rockefeller, and Alphonse Alley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache ranks 47Before him are Francisco Antonio Pinto, August Böckh, Martín Miguel de Güemes, János Scitovszky, Abel de Pujol, and Karol Kurpiński. After him are David Wilkie, William Beaumont, Ján Hollý, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Arvid August Afzelius, and Oliver Hazard Perry. Among people deceased in 1871, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache ranks 66Before him are Paolo Savi, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Adolph Strecker, Robert Anderson, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and Martín Carrera. After him are Arvid August Afzelius, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, Thomas Ewing, George Grote, Francisco Javier de Istúriz y Montero, and Victor Motschulsky.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache ranks 629 out of 1,190Before him are Matthias Schoenaerts (1977), Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930), George Van Biesbroeck (1880), Fernand de Montigny (1885), Théodore Nouwens (1908), and Frans Verbeeck (1941). After him are Thomas Meunier (1991), Johan De Muynck (1948), Frans Schollaert (1851), Suzanne Lilar (1901), Johan Museeuw (1965), and Bob Benny (1926).

Among POLITICIANS In Belgium

Among politicians born in Belgium, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache ranks 124Before him are Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (1790), Petra De Sutter (1963), Henri de Brouckère (1801), Prosper Poullet (1868), Jules Renkin (1862), and Théo Lefèvre (1914). After him are Frans Schollaert (1851), Victor Leemans (1901), Georges Theunis (1873), Jules de Trooz (1857), Felix de Muelenaere (1793), and Jean Van Houtte (1907).