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Paul Otlet
Belgian author, librarian and anti-colonial thinker (1868–1944)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 August 1868
- Died
- 10 December 1944
- Place of birth
- Brussels
- Place of death
- Brussels
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Otlet
- Father
- Edouard Otlet
- Sibling
- Maurice Otlet
- Field of work
- bibliography, computer science, classification scheme, information science
- Occupation
- writer, lawyer, librarian, information scientist, inventor, bibliographer, jurist, Esperantist
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Native language
- French
- archives at
- Mundaneum
- birth name
- Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet
- educated at
- Free University of Brussels, Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Collège Saint-Michel
- influenced by
- Henri La Fontaine, Edmond Picard, Melvil Dewey
- member of
- peace movement
- name in native language
- Paul Otlet
- notable work
- Mundaneum, Universal Decimal Classification
- place of burial
- Etterbeek Cemetery
- residence
- Hôtel Otlet
- short name
- Paul Otlet
- work location
- Brussels
- writing language
- French
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