Metadata: Serge Chlepner papers
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Postal address:
- Campus du Solbosch AX1.222, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 / Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 02/650.35.66
- Email:
- archives@ulb.ac.be
- Reference number:
- ArUnLib-Brussels-201PP
- Title:
- Serge Chlepner papers
- Title (official language):
- Papiers Serge Chlepner
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chlepner, Serge Ben
- Date(s):
- 1822/1949
- Extent:
- 1 linear metre
- Scope and content:
- This fonds mainly contains documents relating to the financial and economic history of Belgium. The material concerns the crisis of 1848, the role of the financial markets, of the Société générale, the state of the Belgian financial market in the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the railroads and tramways, the various enterprises and banks, the credit union, the Caisse générale de Reports et de Dépôts, businesses but also Belgian interests abroad and the stock market.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Serge Ben Chlepner was born in Iekaterinoslav in Ukraine in 1890. He was an economist and taught at the ULB. Having obtained a PhD in economic science in 1913, he worked for the Institut de Sociologie Solvay associated with the ULB. He was naturalised in 1923. This famous economist published various studies notably on economic history and the diamond industry. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he fled to the United States where he became a member of the Belgian delegation to the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. After returning to Belgium he became the vice president of the École de Commerce Solvay of the department of social, political and economic science of the ULB. He joined the board of the ULB, stepping down from his teaching functions. He was one of the main figures of economic science in Belgium and was a member of many scientific committees. He was also a founding member and later administrator of the Amis belges de l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Serge Chlepner died in Brussels in 1964. (N. Lavachery, "Chlepner, Ben Serge", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 78-79.)
- Access points: locations:
- Belgium
- Access points: persons/families:
- Chlepner, Serge
- Finding aids:
- There is a typescript entitled “Inventaire du fonds Chlepner”.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
