Jules Vandenpeereboom

Jules Vandenpeereboom
Prime Minister of Belgium
In office
24 January 1899 – 5 August 1899
MonarchLeopold II
Preceded byPaul de Smet de Naeyer
Succeeded byPaul de Smet de Naeyer
Personal details
Born(1843-03-18)18 March 1843
Kortrijk, Belgium
Died6 March 1917(1917-03-06) (aged 73)
Anderlecht, Belgium
Political partyCatholic Party

Jules (Julius) Henri Pierre François Vandenpeereboom (18 March 1843[1] – 6 March 1917[2]) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.

Vandenpeereboom was born in Kortrijk and educated as a lawyer at KU Leuven.[3] He represented Kortrijk in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1878 to 1900.[4]

He held several ministerial posts, beginning with Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, from 1884 to 1899. He combined this with the War ministry from 1896. He served as the prime minister of Belgium in 1899. He was responsible for the introduction of bilingual postage stamps in Belgium in the period 1891 to 1893.

On leaving the Chamber, he was appointed an honorary Minister of State in 1900 and served in the Belgian Senate representing West Flanders. He died in Anderlecht.

  1. ^ Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (in French). Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire. 2003. p. 117. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  2. ^ Belgisch staatsblad (in French). Imprimerie du Montieur Belge. 1920. p. 461. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Voor Stap" (PDF). anderlecht.be. Toerisme Anderlecht. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  4. ^ Lissens, René Felix (1974). Winkler Prins encyclopedie van Vlaanderen (in Dutch). Elsevier Sequoia. p. 377. ISBN 978-90-10-41014-6. Retrieved 10 October 2024.