Английская Википедия:Georges Van der Kerken
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Georges Van der Kerken (16 October 1888 – 3 December 1953) was a Belgian lawyer, colonial administrator and professor. He served as acting governor of Équateur Province in the Belgian Congo in 1922. He is known for his publications on the ethnology of peoples of the Belgian Congo.
Early years (1888–1914)
Georges-Jules-Pierre Van der Kerken was born in Ixelles on 16 October 1888.Шаблон:Sfn His parents were Théophile Van der Kerken and Charlotte Béraud. He obtained a doctorate in Law from the University of Brussels. He married Jeanne Rogissart.Шаблон:Sfn
Colonial official (1914–1924)
From 1914 to 1919 Van der Kerken practiced law in Katanga Province as chief prosecutor, military auditor and judge.Шаблон:Sfn From 1919 to 1924 he served in the administration of the province of Équateur.Шаблон:Sfn He exercised in turn the functions of regional official, military auditor and district commissioner.Шаблон:Sfn Van der Kerken acted as governor of Équateur when the governor Charles Duchesne was on leave from January to September 1922.Шаблон:Sfn
Academic (1924–1953)
Van der Kerken was a strong defender of indirect administration, a policy aimed at improving Africans while retaining their culture, traditions and language in a country that would one day have to administer itself.Шаблон:Sfn After leaving the administration Van der Kerken became a professor at the Шаблон:Ill in Antwerp, where he taught "Congolese ethnography" from 1924 to 1934.Шаблон:Sfn In 1925 he was taught "Colonial economics and law" at the commercial school attached to the Faculty of Law in Ghent.Шаблон:Sfn In 1926–1927 he undertook a mission for the trade unions in the Congo.Шаблон:Sfn In 1927 he taught "Concepts on the governance of the Belgian Congo" and "The colonial nature and the legislation of Congo" at the Faculty of Law's commercial school, in 1935 gave a free course in "Legislation of the Belgian Congo as well as an overview of the foreign colonial institutions" at the commercial school.Шаблон:Sfn From 1934 he taught "Institutions and customary law in Belgian Africa" at the Law Faculty of the State University in Ghent.Шаблон:Sfn
Van der Kerken was member of the Standing Committee of the Belgian Colonial Congress, member of the Executive Council of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in London, member of the International Colonial Institute which became the International Institute of Differing Civilizations after World War II (1939–1945), member of the Society of Africanists (Société des Africanistes) of Paris and member of the International Institute of Anthropology (Institut international d'Anthropologie) of Paris. He was an associate member of the Royal Belgian Colonial Institute from 5 February 1930, full member from 9 November 1936, and director of the Section of Moral and Political Sciences in 1942. He ceased to participate in the activities of the Institute after the liberation of Belgium.Шаблон:Sfn
Georges Van der Kerken died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert on 3 December 1953.Шаблон:Sfn He was Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II and bearer of decorations of the Royal Order of the Lion.Шаблон:Sfn
Publications
In the course of his duties, Van der Kerken was in constant contact with the local people in his area of jurisdiction. He took every opportunity to question the chiefs and notables in their own language about their religious, family, social and political institutions. He investigated the veracity of the information provided by the different groups of the same people, who sometimes lived miles apart. He also interviewed missionaries, civil servants and magistrates, who provided him with important and original information gathered during their long stay in the native environment.Шаблон:Sfn Félix Cattier proclaimed that Van der Kerken's first book, Les sociétés Bantoues du Congo belge et les problèrnes de la politique, was the standard work on the subject due to its broad and penetrating insight.Шаблон:Sfn
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