Wished De Haerne

The abbot Désiré Pierre Antoine De Haerne (Ypres, July 4th 1804 - Brussels, March 22nd 1890) is an ecclesiastic and a Belgian Politician .

He makes his secondary studies with the college of Ypres then enters to the Séminaire to Ghent. In 1824 it receives the post of professor with the municipal college of Courtrai and becomes prefect of the studies there. It directs then the pulpit of Rhétorique to the college of Roulers. Parallel to this career of teacher, he criticizes the policy of Guillaume I {{er}} of the Netherlands (in particular the governmental monopoly of teaching, which runs up against the catholics), as a writer with the Catholique of the Netherlands . This engagement has consequences on its career in teaching and it is retrogressed Vicaire with Moorslede. It then becomes one of the leaders of the movement petitioner (use of the right of petition registers in the Fundamental law against the policy of Guillaume Ier). He is made “knight of infamy” by the Ordre of the infamy of Constantin Rodenbach. At twenty-six years, he is elected in 1830 appointed district of Roulers to the National congress. He sat as secretary at the sides of Etienne de Gerlache. He votes the exclusion of the Maison of Orange-Nassau. Republican, it adopts the Monarchie finally (it votes for Auguste de Leuchtenberg, then for Léopold of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha). He is also Chanoine of the collegial of Brussels.

In 1831, it is elected appointed with the Chambre of the representatives of Belgium, but gives up its seat, because of its opposition to the Traité of the XVIII articles and of its desire to help its province struck by the crisis of the flax. He then becomes professor of rhetoric to the college of Courtrai. He then takes the head of a movement aiming at modernizing Flemish industry and leaves in France in study trip. On its return, it promotes the use of instruments modern and introduced the Batiste and the manufacture of Mulquinerie. It returns to the Room in 1844 and sits there until its death. He also pled for the development of the lines of Railroad in his area and for the digging of the Canal Bossuit-Courtrai. It defended also the use of the Dutch in teaching, the administration and justice. In 1880, it took share with the inauguration of the exposure of the Fiftieth anniversary to the sides of Charles Rogier.

It also worked with the international level for the improvement of the fate of the deaf-mute children and blind men: it founded and was director of a school for deaf-mute girls, the catholic Institute of deaf-mute of Brussels. It also founded schools for deaf-mute in England and even in the the British Indies, with Bombay. He imagined “shorthand writing-chirologie”, Langue of the signs using the two hands. In 1865, it publishes special teaching of deaf-mute considered, in the principal methods, according to the tradition and progress . In 1883, it was named president of an international congress at this meeting in Brussels.

He was knight of the Ordre of Léopold, as of the Ordre of the iron Cross, of the Ordre of Charles III, about the Légion of honor and of the Ordre of Christ. A statue of Paul De Vigne and Martin Van Langendonck was high the August 26th 1895 in its honor on the town square of Courtrai. It was moved in 1929 in the place of the Casino and in 1951 with the avenue Monseigneur-Of-Haerne.

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