Edmond Picard

Edmond Picard (15 December 1836 – 19 February 1924) was a Belgian jurist and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.[1]

Edmond Picard
Born(1836-12-15)15 December 1836
Brussels, Belgium
Died19 February 1924(1924-02-19) (aged 87)
Namur, Belgium
Occupationjurist, playwright, journalist

Career
Bust of Edmond Picard, 1910

He was lawyer at the court of appeal and the Court of Cassation of Belgium. He was also head of the Belgian bar association, professor of law, playwright and journalist. Involved in politics, he was senator for the Belgian Labour Party. He also was a patron of the arts.

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gollark: If stuff does magically run itself, I don't know *how* you would observe that.
gollark: CGoL can simulate itself, that doesn't mean it runs independently of a computer running it.
gollark: Stuff is seemingly not magically self-computing. At least, I haven't seen algorithms somehow run themselves.
gollark: That is a good question. "I think therefore I am" and all, but that really only implies that in some form "I" am running on some kind of processing hardware which can do consciousness, whether it is my foolish mortal brain in a universe with quarks and everything or a simulation of that on, I don't know, some kind of massive cellular automaton.

References
Portrait of Edmond Picard by Jan Toorop
  1. "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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