Lodewijk de Raet:
De Raet, Lodewijk (Brussels 1870 – Brussels 1914). Economist, sociologist, civil servant, staff member of the ´Institut de Sociologie´ of Solvay, publicist and influential freethinking Flamingant. De Raet was involved in setting up the Flemish People´s Party (Vlaamse Volkspartij), a new Flemish political party, and sat on the editorial board of several Flamingant periodicals. He played a leading part in the debate on the introduction of Dutch at the State University of Gent. His proposal that university faculties and technical colleges should be Dutchified concurrently, was accepted by the Flemish Movement. His essay “The Programme of the Flemings” (in Dutch: Het programma der Vlamingen), advocating the Dutchification of education, justice, public administration, the army and the economy, was officially presented to King Albert I in 1909 on behalf of the Flemish Movement.

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