Eugene Hins

Eugene Hins , (1839 - 1923) with Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, professor of history of the Moyen-âge is the founder of the newspaper the Thought , leader it freethinking Belgian and cofounder of the first International Socialist. who was held the September 28th 1864 with London.

Biography

Resulting from a family of the catholic lower middle class, (his/her father directed the catholic boarding school of the 15, fitted of Merchtem), it did not seem to be predestined with the control of a socialist movement.

After militant studies and activities with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles, Eugene Hins is struck by a problem of blindness and settles for one year with the Brésil as tutor where he discovers the Esclavage.

Returned to Belgium, to unemployment, Hins leaves in 1872 for the Russia and becomes professor within a military academy during two years.

During the creation of International of the Freethinking, which held with Brussels and its first congress in 1880, one notices that Eugene Hins was among the first founders of International the free thinker, one notes the names of Louis Buchner, the German Socialist Wilhelm Liebknecht, cofounder of the German democratic social Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) who had the audacity to protest in 1871 with the Reichstag against the annexation of the Alsace and the Lorraine, but also the philosopher and sociologist English Herbert Spencer, the deputy Charles Bradlaugh Bonner, who dared one of the first openly with to refuse to lend to oath on the Bible the philosophers César de Paepe, Charles Renouvier, and the Desired Belgian Brismée.

Returned to Belgium, Eugene Hins will be one of French-speaking criticisms of the Russian letters most perspicacious of his time (It is also known to have translated several works of Dostoïevski into French.).

After its retirement in 1900, it becomes leading Belgian and international associations of free thinkers.

It will also become to advise communal with Ixelles.

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