Henri La Fontaine Biography and Works.
Henri La Fontaine was born on April 22, 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 the established a reputation as an authority on international law. He was an advocate for women, founding the Belgian League for the Rights of Women in 1890.
In 1893, he became the professor of international law at the Free University of Brussels and later, was elected to the Belgian Senate as a Member of the Socialist Party. He served as Vice-Chairman of the Senate from 1919 to 1932.
La Fontaine took an early interest in the International Peace Bureau and was influential in the Bureau’s efforts to bring about “The Hague Peace Conferences’ of 1899 and 1907. He also served as ‘President of the Bureau’ from 1907 until his death in 1943.
In other efforts to foster world peace, he founded the Centre Intellectual Mondial, which was later merged into the ‘League of Nations Institute for Intellectual Co-operation’. Fontaine proposed such organizations as a world school and university and a world Parliament.
La Fontaine is the co-founder of the Institute, International de Bibliographies, along with Paul Otlet. It was in this role that he and Otlet attended the World Congress of Universal Documentation in 1937.
He died on May 14, 1943.
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He was a Belgian international lawyer.
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