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Jean-Joseph Norbert Metz (2 February 1811 – 28 November 1885) was a Luxembourgian politician and engineer. With his two brothers, members of the powerful Metz family, Charles and Auguste, Metz defined political and economic life in Luxembourg in the mid-nineteenth century.[1]
Metz was the leading 'quarante huitards':[2] the radical liberals responsible for the promulgation of Luxembourg's constitution in 1848. He was appointed by the King to the Assembly of the States in 1842, representing the canton of Capellen.[3] He was then elected to represent Capellen on the Constituent Assembly, in 1848.[4] Pro-Belgian and anti-German Confederation,[5] after the first elections, Metz was appointed Administrator-General for Finances and Administrator-General for Military Affairs.
On 21 May 1834, he married the 21-year-old Marie-Barbe-Philippe-Eugénie Tesch, who had three children before dying on 29 January 1845.[6] He remarried to Tesch's eighteen-year-old cousin, Marie-Suzanne-Albertine Tesch on 7 November 1850.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ Mersch (1963), p. 429
- ^ Thewes (2006), p. 16
- ^ Mersch (1963), p. 485
- ^ (French)/(German) "Mémorial A, 1848, No. 38" (PDF). Service central de législation. http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1848/0038/a038.pdf#page=3. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ^ Thewes (2006), p. 17
- ^ Mersch (1963), p. 373
- ^ Mersch (1963), p. 373
References
- (French) Mersch, Jules (1963). "Les Metz: la Dynastie du Fer". In Mersch, Jules. Biographie nationale du pays de Luxembourg. Luxembourg City: Victor Buck. http://www.luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/luxonline1_2.pl?action=fv&sid=luxbio&vol=12&page=309&zoom=33. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- (French) Thewes, Guy (2006) (PDF). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. http://www.gouvernement.lu/publications/gouvernement/gouvernements_depuis_1848/Les_gouv_2006.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
Political offices Preceded by
Jean UlvelingAdministrator-General for Finances
1848 – 1853Succeeded by
Emmanuel ServaisPreceded by
Baron de TornacoPresident of the Chamber of Deputies
1860 – 1861Succeeded by
Théodore PescatoreCategories:- Ministers for Finances of Luxembourg
- Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg
- Members of the Constituent Assembly of Luxembourg
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg
- Luxembourgian politicians
- Luxembourgian engineers
- Luxembourgian classical liberals
- Metz family
- 1811 births
- 1885 deaths
- People from Luxembourg City
- Luxembourgian politician stubs
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