Joris Helleputte
{{Short description|Belgian politician and architect (1852–1925)}}
Joris or Georges Helleputte (1852–1925){{cite book |last1=Verpoest |first1=Luc |title=Living with History, 1914-1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second World Wars and the Role of Heritage Preservation |date=2011 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-841-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P84es4zwTiAC |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=en}}{{rp|52}} was a Belgian politician and Gothic Revival architect. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Public Works and Minister of Railways, Post and Telegraphs.
Early life and education
Helleputte was born to a Catholic family.{{rp|124}} His father was Petrus Helleputte and his mother was Florentine Detemmerman.{{cite book |title=Biografie |date=1998 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-6186-863-7 |page=264 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YyfMHa-KV8C |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=nl}}
He graduated from Ghent University as a bridge and road engineer.{{cite book |last1=Lamberts |first1=Emiel |title=The Black International. L'International noire: The Holy See and Militant Catholicism in Europe. Le Saint-Siège et le Catholicisme militant en Europe |date=2002 |publisher=Universitaire Pers Leuven |isbn=978-90-5867-200-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNwvDwAAQBAJ |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=fr}}{{rp|361}}
Architectural career
Helleputte became a professor of architecture at the Catholic University of Leuven,{{cite book |last1=Deferme |first1=Jo |title=Uit de ketens van de vrijheid: het debat over de sociale politiek in België, 1886-1914 |date=2007 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-626-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHpEE0cQSSAC |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=nl}}{{rp|160}} teaching architects like Raymond Lemaire and Raphaël Verwilghen.{{rp|54}} He collaborated on projects with Theodoor Van Dormael.{{rp|145}}
He founded the Leuven Guild of Craft and Commerce, co-founded the Boerenbond in 1890,{{rp|361}} and helped found the Belgian Volksbond.{{rp|160}} He was also a member of the Royal Commission for Monuments.{{rp|124}}
Political career
Helleputte represented Maaseik in the Chamber of Representatives from 1889 until 1924.{{rp|160}} From 1901 until 1910, he was Minister of Railways, Post and Telegraphs.{{rp|361}} He then became Minister of Agriculture and Public Works from 1910 until 1918.{{rp|361}}
He accompanied the Belgian government in exile to Le Havre in 1914.{{rp|107}}
Personal life
In 1882, Helleputte married Louise Schollaert, the sister of Prime Minister Frans Schollaert; they had no children.{{cite book |last1=More |first1=Saint Thomas |title=More to Cranevelt |date=1997 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-6186-792-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F9OBDaAfimkC |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=en}}{{rp|107}}
Helleputte's sister, Rosalie, married the Belgian architect Louis Cloquet.{{cite book |last1=Santvoort |first1=Linda Van |last2=Verschaffel |first2=Tom |title=Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century: Architecture, Art, and Literature |date=2008 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-649-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Md4LIRI6LzYC |accessdate=28 November 2019 |language=en}}{{rp|125}}
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Category:19th-century Belgian politicians