Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella

Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
4th Prime Minister of Belgium
In office
20 October 1832 – 4 August 1834
Monarch Leopold I
Preceded by Felix de Muelenaere
Succeeded by Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
Personal details
Born (1790-05-26)26 May 1790
Tournai, Austrian Netherlands
(now Belgium)
Died 5 May 1873(1873-05-05) (aged 82)
Brussels, Belgium
Political party Liberal Party

Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella (26 May 1790 – 5 May 1873) was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, he became a politician and served as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Career

Born in Tournai, Goblet attended the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. He became an engineer officer in the French Imperial Army, but joined the Royal Netherlands Army in 1815, rising to the rank of captain.

At the moment of the Belgian insurrection on 16 November 1830, he joined the revolutionary forces, and was given the rank of colonel by the provisional government. He went into politics in the newly independent Belgium, where he became Minister for Foreign Affairs (de facto prime minister) between 1832 and 1834. Though no formal party structures existed at the time, he was considered politically Liberal. He was appointed as inspector-general of the Belgian Army in 1834.

In 1837, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and raised to nobility. He was the grandfather of Eugene Goblet d'Alviella, a famous historian.

He died in Brussels aged 82 in 1873.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Felix de Muelenaere		 Prime Minister of Belgium
1832–1834 		Succeeded by
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt


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