| 词条 | Georges Lecointe (explorer) |
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| name = Georges Lecointe | image = Georges Lecointe.jpg | alt = Georges Lecointe | caption = Lecointe as second-in-command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition | birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|04|29}} | birth_place = Antwerp, Belgium | death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|05|27|1869|04|29}} | death_place = Uccle, Belgium | nationality = Belgian | occupation = naval officer and scientist | known_for = second-in-command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition | spouse = Charlotte Dumeiz (1900-1929) | children = {{plainlist |
}}Georges Lecointe (29 April 1869 - 27 May 1929) was a Belgian naval officer and scientist. He was captain of the Belgica and second-in-command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to overwinter in Antarctica. After his return to Belgium he was the founder of the International Polar Organization and deeply involved in the foundation of the International Research Council and the International Astronomical Union.[1] Early life and careerGeorges Lecointe was born in Antwerp on 29 April 1869. His father was a well-known mathematics teacher and he proved early on to be a gifted student. He entered the Royal Military Academy in 1886 and the Military Cartographic Institute. After being appointed in 1891 as second lieutenant in the First field artillery regiment and spending some time in the cavalry school in Ypres, he passed the officer examination of the École Polytechnique for the French Navy. The Belgian government detached him to the French Navy, where he was ultimately promoted to ship-of-the-line lieutenant in 1897, or captain-commandant in Belgian army.[2][3] This three-year detachment was exceptional and happened as a result of an audience with king Leopold II: it was only granted to one other Belgian officer, but refused to his friend Emile Danco.[4] Between 1894 and 1897 he trained on a number of ships in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Cochinchina and Tonkin. In 1897 he was attached to the French Observatory of the Bureau des Longitudes and published a course on astronomical navigation and dead reckoning, La navigation astronomique et la navigation estimée, aimed at navy students of the École Polytechnique. For this achievement, he received the Légion d’Honneur in France which the Belgian King Leopold II allowed him to use in Belgium. In his second book, La création d'une marine nationale Belge (On the Creation of a Belgian National Navy), he pleaded for the re-creation of the Belgian Navy, which had been abolished in 1862.[5] This, however, did not happen until the end of the World War I.[6] Belgian Antarctic Expedition{{Further|Belgian Antarctic Expedition}}It must be remembered that the Belgica’s company was as cosmopolitan as it could be, and it was the business of the second in command to keep all these men together and get the best possible work out of them.{{quotation|Lecointe acquitted himself admirably; amiable and firm, he secured the respect of all. As a navigator and astronomer he was unsurpassable, and when he afterwards took over the magnetic work he rendered great services in this department also. Lecointe will always be remembered as one of the main supports of this expedition.|Roald Amundsen|The South Pole}}Emile Danco, a mutual friend of Lecointe and expedition commander Adrien de Gerlache, proposed him in October 1896 to join the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. This was approved by the Prime Minister and the War Minister. De Gerlache offered him the position once more in 1897 as captain of the Belgica and second-in-command of the expedition. Lecointe accepted after due request by the Belgian Prime Minister and the War Minister. He was also responsible for the astronomical and hydrographical observations and, after Danco's death in 1898, measurements of the earth's magnetism. The expedition set sail from Antwerp in August 1897 and started observations in the Antarctic region later that year. On 22 January 1898 sailor Carl Wiencke was washed overboard and drowned, despite a heroic rescue effort by Lecointe. They made their way to the Weddell Sea in early 1898, where the Belgica became trapped in pack ice, forcing them to overwinter for some 13 months. All the expeditioners suffered heavily from scurvy, including Lecointe, but only for a few days in mid-July 1898. Despite de Gerlache's misgivings, they cajoled the sick expedition members into eating fresh seal and penguin meat, nursing them back to health.[3][7][8] At the end of July 1898, Lecointe, together with Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, went on a one week sledge excursion southward in order to test new tent design, equipment and to assess the feasibility of an escape through the pack ice escape. Lecointe, jointly with Cook and Amundsen, drafted a detailed plan to reach the South Magnetic Pole in 1899-1900; this was discussed onboard during the period of August to November 1898. On another occasion, Lecointe, not knowing the presence of Frederick Cook on the ice during the night, had taken him for a seal, and nearly shot him. Early in 1899 the crew finally managed to free the Belgica. On reaching South America Lecointe started exploring the Andes while de Gerlache sailed the Belgica back to Belgium.[9] After his return, Lecointe published Au Pays des Manchots (In Penguin Country), chronicling the Belgica expedition. Scientific career and later lifeLecointe was engaged to Charlotte Dumeiz (1873-1940) before the departure of the Belgica. Charlotte Bay was named after her, and they married shortly after his return. The couple had three children: Henri, Charlotte and Louis-Georges. Both sons studied at the Free University of Brussels.[5][10][11] On his return, Lecointe was called to the Boxer war in China as a second in command in the navy. He was appointed in 1900 as scientific director, then in 1914 as Director of the Royal Observatory in Uccle. Together with Henryk Arctowski and Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski he organized the scientific results of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, as secretary of the commission charged with the publication of the results. In addition he oversaw a large-scale renovation of the observatory and was made responsible for the Belgian training ships. Lecointe created the International Association for polar research, a forerunner of the Antarctic Treaty and was the secretary of the International Polar Commission in 1906, 1908 & 1913. He served voluntarily during the First World War as an artillery major and was involved in the defense of Antwerp, but spent most of the war interned in the Netherlands after the fall of the city.[5] After the war he turned his attention to international cooperation in the sciences, and played an important role in the creation of the International Research Council and affiliated scientific unions, in particular the International Astronomical Union. He served as its vice-president from 1919 to 1922,[12] and lead its Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams from 1920 to 1922, while it was temporarily located in Uccle following the First World War.[13] In 1919 he was elected to the executive committee of the International Research Council at its founding congress in Brussels, together with Schuster, Volterra and Hale, with Picard as president.[14] Lecointe as also President of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society (Vice-President 1900-1912, new Presidency in 1912), the very society that actively sponsored the Belgica expedition. An illness forced him to resign from the Royal Observatory in 1925 and eventually caused his death in Uccle, on 27 May 1929.[2][3] Awards and honorsAcademic titles:Corresponding Member of the French Institute (1918) Corresponding Member of the Longitudes Bureau (1914) Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society (London) Gold Medal of the Belgian Royal Academy Honorary Member and Gold Medallist of the Royal Belgian Geographical Societies of Brussels and Antwerp Corresponding Member of the Geographical Society of Geneva Honorary Corresponding Member of the Marseille Society of Geography and Colonial Studies Honorary Corresponding Member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Medal awarded by the National Society of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of Cherbourg Gold Medal awarded by the Academic Society of International History of Paris Honorary Distinctions:Civic Crosses ( 2nd and 1st class) Commandeur of the Order of Leopold Commandeur of the Order of the Crown Victory Medal Commemorative Medal of the 14-18 War Commandeur of the Légion d’Honneur Commandeur of the Order of the Italian Crown Honorary Member of the Association of Belgian and Foreign Journalists Association Honorary Member of the Central Bureau of Meteorology Honorary Member of the Belgian Maritime ‘Ligue’ Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and the Sun Chevalier of the Royal Order of Cambodia Officer of Public Instruction Civic Medal of First Class Silver Medal of the city of Antwerp Gold Medal of the city of Brussels TributesLecointe Island, Mount Lecointe, Lecointe Guyot, Georges Point and the asteroid 3755 Lecointe were named in his honor. The Belgian Navy named two {{sclass-|Algerine|minesweeper|1}}s after him: the M901 Georges Lecointe (1950-1959, ex {{HMS|Cadmus|J230|6}}) and the F901 Georges Lecointe (1959-1969, ex {{HMCS|Wallaceburg|J336|6}}).[15]Selected works
References1. ^{{cite journal | title=Obituary Notices: Associates:- Lecointe, Georges | author=anon. | journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=February 1930 | volume=90 | pages=386–387 | bibcode=1930MNRAS..90..386.| doi = 10.1093/mnras/90.4.386 }} 2. ^1 {{cite encyclopedia|language=French |last=Cox |first=J.-F. |encyclopedia=Biographie Nationale |editor-last=L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique |date=1961 |pages=545–546 |chapter=Lecointe, Georges |url=http://www2.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2090.pdf#page=282 |accessdate=April 4, 2013 |location=Bruxelles |publisher=Ets. Emille Bruylant |volume=Tome 31 Suppl. Tome III (Fascicule 1er) |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195428/http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2090.pdf |archivedate=December 28, 2016 |df= }} 3. ^1 2 {{cite journal |language=French | title=Georges Lecointe 1869-1929 | author=de Roy, Felix | journal=Gazette astronomique: Bulletin de la Société d'astronomie d'Anvers |date=July 1929 | volume=16 | pages=39–42 | bibcode=1929GazA...16...39D}} 4. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/155437.pdf | title=Physique du globe: mesures pendulaires | publisher=Buschmann | author=Lecointe, Georges | date=1907 | location=Anvers | pages=3–7 | series=Résultats du Voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897-1898-1899 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery: Rapports Scientifiques (1901-1913) | language=French}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite journal | url=http://www2.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/LECOINTEGeorgesARB_195328363.pdf | title=Notice sur Georges Lecointe | author=Cox, J.F. | journal=Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique | date=1959 | volume=CXIX | pages=1–32 | language=French }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.mil.be/navycomp/subject/index.asp?LAN=nl&FILE=subjecttext&ID=157&MENU=479&PAGE=1 | title=Historiek - deel 2: 1835-1940 | publisher=Belgische Defensie | accessdate=2013-05-05 | author=anon. | language=Dutch}} 7. ^{{cite book | title=Roald Amundsen's Belgica diary: the first scientific expedition to the Antarctic | publisher=Bluntisham | author=Amundsen, Roald | date=1999 | isbn=978-1852970581 | others=Decleir, Hugo (ed.) | pages = 208}} 8. ^{{cite book | title=Antarctic Pioneers. The Voyage of the Belgica 1897-99 | publisher=The Fram Museum | date=2010 | location=Oslo, Norway | pages=119 | isbn=978-82-8235-007-5 | editor-last=Kløver | editor-first=Geir O.}} 9. ^{{cite book |language=French | url=https://archive.org/details/voyagedelabelgi00unkngoog | title=Quinze Mois dans l'Antarctique - Voyage de la Belgica | publisher=Ch. Bulens | author=de Gerlache, Adrien | date=1902 | location=Bruxelles | pages=302}} 10. ^{{cite web | url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=123480 | title=Charlotte Bay | publisher=Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research | work=Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica | accessdate=2013-04-29}} 11. ^{{cite web | url=http://gw13.geneanet.org/gounou?lang=en&pz=auguste&nz=dumont&ocz=0&p=georges&n=lecointe | title=Georges Lecointe | publisher=GeneaNet | accessdate=2013-04-28 | author=Dumont de Chassart, Reginald}} 12. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/10261/ | title=G. Lecointe | publisher=International Astronomical Union | accessdate=2013-04-07 | author=anon.}} 13. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.everythingintheuniverse.com/node/33 | title=The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams: A Case Study in Astronomical Internationalism | author=Sperling, Norman | journal=Griffith Observer |date=June 1991 | pages=2–17}} 14. ^{{cite journal | title=The International Research Council and the International Astronomical Union | author=Campbell, W.W. | journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |date=October 1919 | volume=31 | issue=183 | pages=249–256 | jstor=40692067 | doi=10.1086/122868|bibcode = 1919PASP...31..249C }} 15. ^{{cite web |language=French | url=http://www.marinebelge.be/lecointe.html | title=M 901 et F 901 Georges Lecointe | accessdate=March 26, 2013}} External links
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