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Prodhomme, Henri
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Versailles [Seine-et-Oise, F], 1844 - Paris [F], 1924
Activity
1874 - 1875 / Bruxelles
Henry Louis, ° 7.9.1844; + 9.4.1924. Also spelled "Prod'homme". Mechanical engineer. Graduated from the University of Liège in 1866 and then returned to France. A Communard, during the siege of Paris he was appointed a colonel on the general staff and laid siege to Place Vendôme on 1-2.4.1871. Condemned to death in his absence on 16.11.1872, he escaped to Belgium via England and Jersey. Living in Brussels - Saint-Josse in February 1875. Founder member of the ABP.
1875 * / Jemelle
Chief engineer and director at "Compagnie des marbreries de Jemelle" owned by Van Mons et Cie. However, due to his insurrectionary past, pressure was put on Prodhomme's employers to sack him and a judicial expulsion order was drawn up, effective on 1.1.1876. Prodhomme moved to Germany, where from 1876 to 1878 he was an engineer and quarry manager for the firm Aluminia in Oberlahnstein near Koblenz [D]. He returned to Belgium in 1881, setting up a concern for mining "Pyronitrine" powder in Putte-Cappellen (province of Antwerp). Prodhomme remained in Belgium and by 1900 he was director-general of the Belgian Mining Trust of South Africa Ltd.
Henry Louis, ° 7.9.1844; + 9.4.1924. Also spelled "Prod'homme". Mechanical engineer. Graduated from the University of Liège in 1866 and then returned to France. A Communard, during the siege of Paris he was appointed a colonel on the general staff and laid siege to Place Vendôme on 1-2.4.1871. Condemned to death in his absence on 16.11.1872, he escaped to Belgium via England and Jersey. Living in Brussels - Saint-Josse in February 1875. Founder member of the ABP.
1875 * / Jemelle
Chief engineer and director at "Compagnie des marbreries de Jemelle" owned by Van Mons et Cie. However, due to his insurrectionary past, pressure was put on Prodhomme's employers to sack him and a judicial expulsion order was drawn up, effective on 1.1.1876. Prodhomme moved to Germany, where from 1876 to 1878 he was an engineer and quarry manager for the firm Aluminia in Oberlahnstein near Koblenz [D]. He returned to Belgium in 1881, setting up a concern for mining "Pyronitrine" powder in Putte-Cappellen (province of Antwerp). Prodhomme remained in Belgium and by 1900 he was director-general of the Belgian Mining Trust of South Africa Ltd.
Locations
1874 - 1875 / Bruxelles
1875 * / Jemelle
1875 * / Jemelle
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
"PROD'HOMME Henry, Louis, dit le colonel Henry" at:
http://maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article69029
accessed 3.12.2019
http://maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article69029
accessed 3.12.2019
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1878
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3511
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 15.2.2018; SFJ revised 3.12.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght