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Georges Brausch

1915 – 1964

Belgian administrator and scholar

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Lived 1915 – 1964 (aged 48–49). Georges Brausch was a Belgian colonial administrator.

Georges Edouard Jean Baptiste Brausch (31 October 1915 – 27 June 1964) was a British born Belgian colonial administrator, ethnographer and academic scholar.

Biography He studied at the Colonial University of Belgium, after which he began a career in colonial administration. His first post was as territorial administrator of Kasaï in the Belgian Congo. His research led him to be appointed Artium Magistri in social ethnology in the Department of Bantu Studies in the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1960 he became the director of the Institut d'études sociales d'Elisabethville in Katanga. which discussed Belgium's paternalism in foreign policy towards its colony in the Congo. His most famous work was the monograph 'Belgian Colonial Administration''' published in 1961. In between 1957 and 1961 he published a number of smaller articles dealing with a number of topics, including the article Le Problème des élites au Congo belge and Pluralisme ethnique et culturel au Congo Belge''.

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Georges Edouard Jean Baptiste Brausch

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Who was Georges Brausch?

Belgian administrator and scholar

When was Georges Brausch born?

Georges Brausch was born in 1915.

When did Georges Brausch die?

Georges Brausch died on 27 June 1964.

What was Georges Brausch's occupation?

Georges Brausch was a colonial administrator.

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Georges Brausch was Belgian.

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· Wikipedia: Georges Brausch

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