Political party CD&V | Name Paul Byttebier | |
Born April 4, 1922 (age 102)
Roeselare, Belgium ( 1922-04-04 ) Alma mater Universite catholique de Louvain Education Catholic University of Leuven | ||
Dr. Paul Byttebier (born April 4, 1922, Roeselare, Belgium) is a physician and schepen of Youth and Culture Kontich.
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Life
Son of a contractor / industrialist from Roeselare (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrusəlaːrə], French: Roulers), a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. He is also a member of the Byttebier family.
He went through the Greek and Latin humanities at Seminary Roeselare and for his PhD in medicine (1948) he went to the Universite catholique de Louvain. He established himself as a general practitioner in Kontich.
In 1941, upon his arrival in Leuven, Byttebier attended the University Universitas movement of canon Albert Dondeyne and was an active member. From 1945, the board of the Catholic Flemish Student Alliance (KVHU) Prof. Dondeyne Byttebier learned to combine faith with culture and science. He met, among others Pieter De Somer and Josue Vandenbroucke. In the postwar decades, Universitasgroep exerted an influence on religious practice, politics and even in medical practice.
Universitas exercised more influence on Byttebier. He was also inspired by progressive Christian thinkers such as Schillebeeckx, Kung, Wieringa Kuitert and Peter Schmidt.
In 1949 he moved to Kontich, married Jozefien De Boodt (Ghent, March 17, 1926) and was the father of five children, including the later councilor of Antwerp, Johan Byttebier. De Boodt – Byttebier have nine grandchildren.
Kontich schepen
Paul Byttebier was CVP – schepen of Youth and Culture in Kontich (1964–1969).
In 1967 he invited Staf Van Elzen to create a municipal school of painting. A small school with two teachers (Staf Van Elzen and Hugo Leyers) and 30 students. It is now an institution with ten teachers and over 350 students.
Byttebier founded together with Gust Reins municipal consultative body for cultural life. In 1971, the Municipal Cultural Council Kontich was founded.
He is co-founder of the Pension Fund for doctors. He was active in the General Syndicate of physicians from Belgium.