Alphonse van Gèle

Alphonse van Gèle, also written van Gele or Vangele (25 April 1848 – 23 February 1939), was a Belgian soldier who served as the Vice-Governor General of the Congo Free State from December 1897 until January 1899.[1][2]

Alphonso van Gèle in uniform

References

Édouard Janssens; Albert Cateaux (1908), Les Belges au Congo: notices biographiques, Antwerp: J. van Hille-De Backer, pp. 167–82.
A. Engels (1951), "Vangele (Alphonse)" (PDF), Biographie Coloniale Belge, 2, Institut royal colonial belge, pp. 928–37.

External links

Archive Alphonse Vangele, Royal Museum for Central Africa

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