Louis Frank (lawyer)

This article is about the lawyer, philosopher and pioneer of the Belgian feminist movement. For the lawyer and liberal politician, see Louis Franck (politician). For the musician, see Esthetic Education.
Photograph of Louis Frank in "L’Expansion belge", published in 1911

Louis Frank (Brussels, January 22, 1864 – Brussels, July 25, 1917 [1]) was a Belgian lawyer, philosopher and pioneer of the Belgian feminist movement.

As a liberal activist and academician, he devoted his career to the promotion of the rights of women and children and for a new social order.[2]

He represented Marie Popelin at the bar during the “Popelin affair” and co-founded the Belgian League for the Rights of Women.

At the end of his life, he led a fight for pacifism and campaigned to make the city of Brussels a “federal district of the world”.

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  2. ^ De Groof, Roel., Brussels and Europe, Bruxelles and L'Europe., p.104, 2008, ISBN 978-90-5487-529-1