Paul Byttebier

Paul Byttebier

Promotional Medicine 1948 Paul Byttebier Accompanied by Paul Devlies and Isidoor Leusen.
schepen Youth and Culture Kontich
In office
1952–1963
Personal details
Born (1922-04-04) April 4, 1922
Roeselare, Belgium
Political party CVP
Alma mater Université catholique de Louvain

Dr. Paul Byttebier (born April 4, 1922, Roeselare, Belgium) is a physician and schepen of Youth and Culture Kontich.

Life

Son of a contractor / industrialist from Roeselare (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrusəlaːrə], French: Roulers), a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. He is also a member of the Byttebier family.

He went through the Greek and Latin humanities at Seminary Roeselare and for his PhD in medicine (1948) he went to the Université catholique de Louvain.[1] He established himself as a general practitioner in Kontich.

In 1941, upon his arrival in Leuven, Byttebier attended the University Universitas movement of canon Albert Dondeyne and was an active member. From 1945, the board of the Catholic Flemish Student Alliance (KVHU) Prof. Dondeyne Byttebier learned to combine faith with culture and science. He met, among others Pieter De Somer and Josué Vandenbroucke. In the postwar decades, Universitasgroep exerted an influence on religious practice, politics and even in medical practice.

Universitas exercised more influence on Byttebier. He was also inspired by progressive Christian thinkers such as Schillebeeckx, Küng, Wieringa Kuitert and Peter Schmidt.

In 1949 he moved to Kontich, married Jozefien De Boodt[2] (Ghent, March 17, 1926) and was the father of five children, including the later councilor of Antwerp, Johan Byttebier.[3] De Boodt – Byttebier have nine grandchildren.

Kontich schepen

Paul Byttebier was CVPschepen of Youth and Culture in Kontich (1964–1969).

In 1967 he invited Staf Van Elzen to create a municipal school of painting. A small school with two teachers (Staf Van Elzen and Hugo Leyers) and 30 students. It is now an institution with ten teachers and over 350 students.[4]

Byttebier founded together with Gust Reins municipal consultative body for cultural life. In 1971, the Municipal Cultural Council Kontich was founded.[5]

He is co-founder of the Pension Fund for doctors. He was active in the General Syndicate of physicians from Belgium.

References

  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Alumni 1948
  2. Geneanet Jozefien De Boodt (Progeny)
  3. Geneanet Paul Byttebier
  4. of-alder / Altena District Staf Van Elzen (Paul Byttebier)
  5. Kontich Open VLD Dr. Paul Bijttebier (councillor of youth and culture)

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