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Bekaert, Maurice
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1866 - Suez [EG], 1938
Activity
1909 - 1912 Gand
Maurice Victor François Marie Joseph. ° 30.9.1866; + 6.12.1938. Doctor in law. His first photographs date back to the early 1890s. A photograph of the Shanghai docks credited to Bekaert was published in "Le Globe Illustré" on 8.5.1904.
1913 Sweveghem
He took many photos in Egypt. Author of "L'Egypte et le Soudan, pays de tourisme", published by the "Chambre de commerce belgo-égyptienne", Brussels, 1934. President of "Association Catholique de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre". Knight of the Order of Leopold. Bekaert’s body was repatriated by boat and interred in the family vault in Jodoigne.
Maurice Victor François Marie Joseph. ° 30.9.1866; + 6.12.1938. Doctor in law. His first photographs date back to the early 1890s. A photograph of the Shanghai docks credited to Bekaert was published in "Le Globe Illustré" on 8.5.1904.
1913 Sweveghem
He took many photos in Egypt. Author of "L'Egypte et le Soudan, pays de tourisme", published by the "Chambre de commerce belgo-égyptienne", Brussels, 1934. President of "Association Catholique de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre". Knight of the Order of Leopold. Bekaert’s body was repatriated by boat and interred in the family vault in Jodoigne.
Locations
1909 - 1912 Gand
1913 Sweveghem
1913 Sweveghem
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1909 - 1913
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#0261
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 5.9.2017; SFJ revised 21.9.2019 & 17.12.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 1.2.2021; MCC revised 18.3.2024 based on information supplied by Bekaert’s great-granddaughter.