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Xavier de Theux
Birth Name:	Xavier Marie Georges Théodore De Theux de Montjardin^[1]
Birth Date:	23 September 1838
Birth Place:	Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium
Death Place:	City of Brussels, Belgium

Xavier de Theux or Xavier Marie Georges Théodore De Theux de Montjardin (23 September 1838 — 13 December 1896) was a Belgian bibliophile and president of the Society of Belgian Bibliophilists.

Biography

Xavier Marie Georges Théodore De Theux de Montjardin was born in Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium on 23 September 1838.^[2]

De Theux obtained a Doctorate of Law.^[3] He married Eugénie de Thysebaert in Namur on 18 May 1865.^[2]

Joining the Liège Bibliophile Society in 1863, he later founded the Society of Belgian Bibliophilists (fr|Société des bibliophiles de Belgique) in 1865.^[3] Xavier de Theux served as president of the Society, with Ferdinand Van Der Haeghen as vice president, Gustave Hagemans as treasurer, and Jules Delecourt as secretary.^[4]

Death

Xavier de Theux died in Brussels on 13 December 1896.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Conlon, P. M. (1992). Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique (le). Switzerland: Librairie Droz.
2. Poplimont, C. (1867). La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles, reconnues de la Belgique .... Belgium: Typ. de G. Adriaens.
3. Brassinne, J. (1926). Theux (Xavier-Marie-Georges-Théodore, chevalier de, de Montjardin), bibliographe. Biographie Nationale, 24, 784-786.
4. Le bibliophile belge. (1866). Belgium: librairie ancienne et moderne.