Metadata: Arthur Hirsch
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume
- Postal address:
- Ruisbroekstraat 2-6 / Rue de Ruysbroeck 2-6, 1000 Brussel
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 513 76 80
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- archives.generales@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB-Brussels-510-III.1526
- Title:
- Arthur Hirsch
- Title (official language):
- Arthur Hirsch
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hirsch, Arthur
- Date(s):
- 1898/1933
- Extent:
- ca. 21 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- Only half of this fonds has been ordered and described at the time of writing. The documents mainly contain information on the professional activities of Arthur Hirsch. We almost exclusively find files (of variable size) concerning court cases treated by Hirsch, files about the execution of wills, etc. We also note private correspondence, various notes, etc. as well as correspondence of the Maison Hirsch (with suppliers, clients) and a few files related to the Stichting Villa Johanna.
- Archival history:
- Donation by A. Hirsch in 1962.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Arthur Hirsch (1873-1933) obtained a PhD in law at the ULB (1895). At the university he was active in various student organisations. Hirsch was the co-founder of the Extension universitaire of the ULB (in 1893-1894) and also became a professor of the Université Nouvelle (established as the result of a split within the ULB). He didn’t follow in the footsteps of his father Léo Hirsch – owner of the Magasins Hirsch & Cie – but became a lawyer of the Bar in Brussels (1898). Later he was the head of a law firm specialised in commercial law. After the First World War he was charged by the Belgian government with studying the establishment of a Raad van State, after the French model. Hirsch became a socialist in his student days. He was honorary president of the Enfants du Peuple and president of the workers’ university Le Foyer intellectuel (both in Saint Gilles), member of the Ligue Ouvrière and he had helped finance the Maison du Peuple in Brussels (1899). He was also the director of the Villa Johanna - his only function within the Jewish community of Brussels. (V. Pouillard, “Hirsch, Arthur”, in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Brussel, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 163-164.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hirsch, Arthur
- Finding aids:
- There is a very brief summary list of a part of the fonds.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
