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Siret, Henri
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Person (Male)
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- Amateur
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Life dates
Namur, 1857 - Maleizen, 1933
Activity
1893 - 1894 Louvain
Henri Corneille Marie Ghislain, ° 26.7.1857; + 22.10.1933. Engineer, like his brother Louis (° Sint-Niklaas, 26.8.1860; + Herrerías [ES], 7.6.1934), both graduates of the "Ecole des Mines" at the University of Louvain and recorded as engineers in Spain in 1887. Henri Siret, who had a distinguished career, received the Martorell prize in 1887 awarded by the city of Barcelona for his study on prehistoric metalworking in south-eastern Spain pursuant to his discovery, together with his brother, of vestiges of the Argar civilisation. On his return to Belgium, Henri donated his collection to the "Musée du Cinquantenaire" in Brussels. Henri Siret subsequently became the director of "La Revue Générale" and an Officer of the Order of Leopold.
A corresponding member of the "Académie d’archéologie de Belgique", Henri Siret gave a slide show featuring views of southern Spain to the "Congrès de la Fédération archéologique et historique de Belgique", held in Charleroi in August 1888. He also gave a presentation of his brother Louis' excavations in the region of Cuevas [ES], supported by "remarkable photographic slides", to the "Société archéologique de Bruxelles" on 7.5.1894. Louis himself gave a talk with photographs on the Spanish provinces of Murcia and Almeria to the "Geographical Association" in Antwerp on 8.4.1890 (Handelsblad, 4.4.1890).
By 1906, Henri Siret was the engineer and director of "Compagnie du chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs africains", a project to construct a railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool, in which capacity he gave a talk with photographs on railways in Africa to the "Cercle d'Etudes Coloniales" on 9.1.1906 (Handelsblad, 9.1.1906).
Henri Corneille Marie Ghislain, ° 26.7.1857; + 22.10.1933. Engineer, like his brother Louis (° Sint-Niklaas, 26.8.1860; + Herrerías [ES], 7.6.1934), both graduates of the "Ecole des Mines" at the University of Louvain and recorded as engineers in Spain in 1887. Henri Siret, who had a distinguished career, received the Martorell prize in 1887 awarded by the city of Barcelona for his study on prehistoric metalworking in south-eastern Spain pursuant to his discovery, together with his brother, of vestiges of the Argar civilisation. On his return to Belgium, Henri donated his collection to the "Musée du Cinquantenaire" in Brussels. Henri Siret subsequently became the director of "La Revue Générale" and an Officer of the Order of Leopold.
A corresponding member of the "Académie d’archéologie de Belgique", Henri Siret gave a slide show featuring views of southern Spain to the "Congrès de la Fédération archéologique et historique de Belgique", held in Charleroi in August 1888. He also gave a presentation of his brother Louis' excavations in the region of Cuevas [ES], supported by "remarkable photographic slides", to the "Société archéologique de Bruxelles" on 7.5.1894. Louis himself gave a talk with photographs on the Spanish provinces of Murcia and Almeria to the "Geographical Association" in Antwerp on 8.4.1890 (Handelsblad, 4.4.1890).
By 1906, Henri Siret was the engineer and director of "Compagnie du chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs africains", a project to construct a railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool, in which capacity he gave a talk with photographs on railways in Africa to the "Cercle d'Etudes Coloniales" on 9.1.1906 (Handelsblad, 9.1.1906).
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1893 - 1894 Louvain
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Association belge de Photographie
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Dates of affiliation
1893 - 1894
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DIRECTORY_1997#3890
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 2.5.2020, 26.10.2021 & 17.2.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 11.12.2021; SFJ revised 16.10.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght