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Place of Birth: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Lieven Gevaert
- Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist.
- His father died when he was only three years old.
- He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods.
- In 1894, he founded the company Gevaert & Co, which in 1920, was transformed to N.V Gevaert Photo-producten, merged in 1964 with Agfa AG to become Gevaert-Agfa NV and later Agfa-Gevaert NV. Already at an early age, he felt socially responsible and wanted to advance the status of Dutch in Belgium.
- His personal ideas were strongly influenced by the social encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and the writings of Lodewijk De Raet.
- He supported several Flemish initiatives as a manager, but stayed outside politics.
- His main objectives were the introduction of Dutch as a business language, and the foundation of a sound Dutch-speaking education as a means to establish a Flemish elite.
- In 1926, when the Vlaamsch Handelsverbond (Vlaams Economisch Verbond, VEV) was founded, Gevaert was its first chairman.
- Later, he founded the Sint-Lievenscollege in Antwerp, where he lived on Belgiëlei.
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