Metadata: Papers of Arthur Wauters
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-190PP
- Title:
- Papers of Arthur Wauters
- Title (official language):
- Papiers Arthur Wauters
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wauters, Arthur
- Date(s):
- 1890/1960
- Date note:
- precise dates unknown
- Extent:
- 3 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds notably contains a rich correspondence exchanged between Arthur Wauters and Max Gottschalk – see files nos. 56-86 (correspondence related to Wauters’ plan to move to the United States), nos. 87-119 (correspondence concerning the Conférence Internationale du Travail) and nos. 120-161 (general correspondence, years 1949-1958).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Arthur Wauters (1890-1960) held a PhD in economics and became a professor at the ULB in 1930. He formed part of the leadership of the Belgische Werklieden Partij (1932-1933 and 1935-1936) and presided the commission of inquiry on the bankruptcy of the Belgian Bank van de Arbeid. Wauters was a co-opted senator (1932) and member of parliament (1936-1944). He held various ministerial posts in the interwar and immediate post-war period, i.a. Public Health (1937-1939), Labour and Social Security (1939), National Information (1939-1940) and Agriculture (1946). At the end of his career, Wauters served as minister plenipotentiary in Warsaw (1949-1950) and ambassador in Moscow (1952-1955). (Y.-W. Delzenne & J. Houyoux (dir.), Le nouveau dictionnaire des belges, Brussel, Le Cri, 1998, vol. 2, p. 335; M. Vandenbroucke, Inventaris van het archief van Arthur Wauters, Gent, Amsab-ISG, 2009.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Wauters, Arthur
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish political activity
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Finding aids:
- J.-P. Devroey, Papiers Arthur Wauters. Inventaire, 190PP, 1970-1971. There is also a digital inventory.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
