Alphonse Le Roy
Alphonse Le Roy (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s lə ʁwa]; 1822–1896) was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium, who contributed over 150 entries to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique.
Life
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Le Roy was born in Liège on 28 July 1822, the only son of Louis-Nicolas Le Roy and Henriette Streel.[1] He studied philosophy at Liège University, graduating at the age of 19, and after abandoning a law degree went on to qualify as a teacher.[1] He taught at a secondary school in Tienen for a number of years from 1844, helping set up the Journal de l'Instruction publique in 1845. On 12 September 1848 he married Marie-Françoise Elisa Delvaux (1818–1902).[1] In 1850 he was appointed lecturer on logic and metaphysics at the University of Liège. He went on to lecture on archaeology (1853–1855; 1865–1875), aesthetics (1854–1879) and the history of philosophy (1874–1889). He was appointed extraordinary professor in 1856, full professor in 1862, and professor emeritus on 23 September 1889.[1]
He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 9 May 1870, a full member on 12 May 1873, and president in 1882.[2] He was a member of many other scholarly societies. He died in Liège on 2 March 1896.
Works
- La philosophie au pays de Liège, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Liège, Paris and Leipzig, 1860)[3]
- Liber Memorialis: L'Université de Liège depuis sa fondation (Liège, 1869)[4]