Auguste Duvivier

Auguste Joseph Duvivier (12 December 1772 – 1 July 1846) was a Belgian liberal politician and Minister of Finance.

Auguste Duvivier

Biography

Duvivier was born in Mons on 12 December 1772. He had two brothers, Vincent Duvivier and Ignace Louis Duvivier, who also served in the military.[1]

Auguste Duvivier studied medicine and graduated from the University of Leuven. He then pursued a specialization in Paris. He did not fully practice medicine, but was professor of natural history at the Central School of Jemmape in 1798.[2]

He then made a career in administration under the Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.[3]

gollark: Also, large-scale competition burns a ton of resources which would ideally not be used up.
gollark: I say this because you said> do you really want a second rate species succeeding?but it isn't a given that because something won at competition it's actually *better*.
gollark: It's the easiest example I could come up with. You could probably look at history or sports too.
gollark: That isn't really a goal. Virioids aren't going around thinking about their goals and how best to satisfy them. They just do things related to that due to the output of blind optimisation processes.
gollark: Things winning is often not determined by actual merit but unrelated factors and random chance. This happens a lot in computing, where a terrible standard comes first or is supported by big companies or something, and nobody can ever get everyone to switch.

References
  1. "Biographie nationale, Volume 6", Académie royale de Belgique, 1878
  2. "Chambre des représentants de Belgique DUVIVIER". unionisme.be. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  3. Charles Poplimont, "La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique, Volume 4", 1866


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