page_title: Alphonse Le Roy
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Alphonse Le Roy / Life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait d' Alphonse Le Roy.
context_page_description: Alphonse Le Roy was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium, who contributed over 150 entries to the Biographie Nationale de Belgique.
context_section_description: Le Roy was born in Liège on 28 July 1822, the only son of Louis-Nicolas Le Roy and Henriette Streel. He studied philosophy at Liège University, graduating at the age of 19, and after abandoning a law degree went on to qualify as a teacher. He taught at a secondary school in Tienen for a number of years from 1844, helping set up the Journal de l'Instruction publique in 1845. On 12 September 1848 he married Marie-Françoise Elisa Delvaux (1818–1902). In 1850 he was appointed lecturer on logic and metaphysics at the University of Liège. He went on to lecture on archaeology (1853-1855; 1865-1875), aesthetics (1854-1879) and the history of philosophy (1874-1889). He was appointed extraordinary professor in 1856, full professor in 1862, and professor emeritus on 23 September 1889.
  He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 9 May 1870, a full member on 12 May 1873, and president in 1882. He was a member of many other scholarly societies. He died in Liège on 2 March 1896.
caption: Alphonse Le Roy (by Jonathan a.k.a. Alfred Decelle, in Caprice Revue 1888-01-21)
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