About Albert Joseph Goblet d’Alviella: Belgian Statesman (1790 – 1873)
Albert Joseph, Count of Goblet d’Alviella (26 May 1790 – 5 May 1873) was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, he became a politician and served as Prime Minister of Belgium.
Profession
Born in Tournai, Goblet studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. He became an engineer in the French Imperial Army, but joined the Royal Dutch Army in 1815, rising to the rank of captain.
During the Belgian uprising of November 16, 1830, he joined the revolutionary forces and was awarded the rank of colonel by the Provisional Government. He plunged into politics in newly independent Belgium as foreign minister (In fact Prime Minister) between 1832 and 1834. Although no formal party structure existed at the time, he was considered a liberal politically. In 1834 he was appointed Governor of the Belgian Army.
In 1837, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and became a nobleman. He is the grandfather of the famous historian Eugene Goblet d’Alviella.
He died in Brussels in 1873 at the age of 82.
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