De Bouge was born in
Ixelles on 5 January 1757 to Joseph-Ernst de Bouge and Marie-Anne Brems.[3] His first official position, in 1782, was as surveyor and cartographer to the
Duchy of Guelders.[4] During the
French invasion of 1794 he fled the Southern Netherlands. He found refuge first at Nijmegen, in 1796 at Mainz, and in 1797 at Vienna. Listed as an émigré by the Revolutionary authorities, his property was sequestered.[5]
In 1806 De Bouge produced guidebooks to Aachen, Antwerp, and Paris (all published in Brussels), and the same year became head of the Topographical Bureau of the
Kingdom of Holland.[6] In 1808 he attempted to establish an engravers' school in Amsterdam.[7]
In 1810 De Bouge's department was transferred to Paris, and his wife, Marie-Thérèse Moss, died there on 29 October 1814.[8] He retired the same year.
De Bouge died at The Hague on 20 February 1833.[9]
^Claire Lemoine-Isabeau, La cartographie du territoire belge de 1780 à 1830: Entre Ferraris et le dépôt de la guerre de Belgique (Brussels, 1997).
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 260-261.
^Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld, "Reports", in Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1800, Blueprints for a National Community, edited by Joost Kloek and Wijnand Mijnhardt (Assen, Basingstoke and New York, 2004), p. 297.
^J. Raineau, "Une École de gravure à Amsterdam sous Louis Napoléon: Le projet de Jean-Baptiste De Bouge (1808-1811)", in Échanges artistiques entre les anciens Pays-Bas et la France 1482-1814, edited by G. Maës and J. Blanc (Turnhout 2010), pp. 75-87.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), p. 264.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.
De Bouge was born in
Ixelles on 5 January 1757 to Joseph-Ernst de Bouge and Marie-Anne Brems.[3] His first official position, in 1782, was as surveyor and cartographer to the
Duchy of Guelders.[4] During the
French invasion of 1794 he fled the Southern Netherlands. He found refuge first at Nijmegen, in 1796 at Mainz, and in 1797 at Vienna. Listed as an émigré by the Revolutionary authorities, his property was sequestered.[5]
In 1806 De Bouge produced guidebooks to Aachen, Antwerp, and Paris (all published in Brussels), and the same year became head of the Topographical Bureau of the
Kingdom of Holland.[6] In 1808 he attempted to establish an engravers' school in Amsterdam.[7]
In 1810 De Bouge's department was transferred to Paris, and his wife, Marie-Thérèse Moss, died there on 29 October 1814.[8] He retired the same year.
De Bouge died at The Hague on 20 February 1833.[9]
^Claire Lemoine-Isabeau, La cartographie du territoire belge de 1780 à 1830: Entre Ferraris et le dépôt de la guerre de Belgique (Brussels, 1997).
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 260-261.
^Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld, "Reports", in Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1800, Blueprints for a National Community, edited by Joost Kloek and Wijnand Mijnhardt (Assen, Basingstoke and New York, 2004), p. 297.
^J. Raineau, "Une École de gravure à Amsterdam sous Louis Napoléon: Le projet de Jean-Baptiste De Bouge (1808-1811)", in Échanges artistiques entre les anciens Pays-Bas et la France 1482-1814, edited by G. Maës and J. Blanc (Turnhout 2010), pp. 75-87.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), p. 264.
^Carlo de Cercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.