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Henri La Fontaine

1854 - 1943

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Henri La Fontaine (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi lafɔ̃ˈtɛn]; 22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri La Fontaine is the 7th most popular lawyer (up from 8th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Lawyer.

Henri la fontaine is most famous for being the president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Henri La Fontaine ranks 7 out of 136. Before him are Hugo Grotius, Al-Shafi‘i, Charles Albert Gobat, Carlo Buonaparte, Louis Renault, and John F. Kennedy Jr.. After him are Ulpian, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, Tobias Asser, and Paul Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Henri La Fontaine ranks 8. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, and Paul Ehrlich. After him are Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, George Eastman, and Milan I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1943, Henri La Fontaine ranks 13. Before him are Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria. After him are Theodor Eicke, Sophie Scholl, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Millerand, and Beatrix Potter.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Henri La Fontaine ranks 44 out of 1,190. Before him are Eleanor of Austria (1498), Georges Lemaître (1894), William III of the Netherlands (1817), Jacques Brel (1929), Hergé (1907), and Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564). After him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Pepin of Herstal (635), Margaret of Parma (1522), Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568).

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Among LAWYERS In Belgium

Among lawyers born in Belgium, Henri La Fontaine ranks 1. After him are Koen Lenaerts (1954).

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