Émile Coppieters
Louis Émile Coppieters (1849–1922) was a politician in the Belgian Labour Party who sat in the Belgian Senate from 1908 until his death.
Life[edit]
Coppieters was born in Ghent on 15 December 1849, the son of Pierre Coppieters and Emilie Vanden Berghe.
In 1895 he was elected a Socialist town councillor in Ghent. From 1908 to 1919 he sat in the Senate for the Arrondissement of Liège, and from 1919 until his death for the Arrondissement of Eeklo.[1] He took the leading role in organising the Universal and International Exhibition held in Ghent in 1913.[2] After the First World War he was appointed royal commissioner for the devastated areas, playing a particular role in the post-war rebuilding of Nieuwpoort.[1]
As a private contractor he was involved in works on the ports of Ostend, Bruges, Antwerp and Brussels, and the Charleroi canal.[1]
Publications[edit]
- Le Bassin de l’Yser. Documentation scientifique, historique, administrative (Ghent, 1920)
- with C. Janssens, L’eau potable au Bassin de l’Yser (Ghent, 1921)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c U. Vermeulen, "Coppieters, Louis Emile", Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1964), 330-332.
- ^ William Whyte (ed.), Ghent Planning Congress 1913: Premier Congrès International et Exposition Comparée des Villes (Abingdon and New York, 2014), p. viii.