Auguste Voisin

Auguste Voisin (1800–1843) was a French-born Belgian historian, librarian and university professor.

Life Voisin was born in Pernes-lès-Boulogne on 9 March 1800 and was educated at the royal college in Ghent and then Ghent University, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1824. From 1825 to 1830, he taught rhetoric at a school in Kortrijk, and in 1830 became a private tutor in Ghent. He went on to teach Greek literature at the university, and on 13 April 1836 was appointed university librarian. He recatalogued the university's law collection. He also catalogued the library of the bibliophile Charles van Hulthem (1764–1832), which in 1837 was bought by the Royal Library of Belgium as the heart of its collection.

Publications Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens et ses hommes célèbres (Ghent, Vandekerckhove, 1826); further editions in 1831 and 1838. La bataille de Woeringen: récit historique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts, 1839)