User:Luc.de.bry

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Belgian, born in the ex-colonies in Central Africa, with famous gorillas in the mist among closest and peaceful neighbours.

Our name "de Bry" (or Debry, since 1792, in Belgium, because of the Edict of Mayors), is from Celtic origins, "brium - briga", which means "mountains".

Our family name migrated out of Switzerland, apparently some 7,000 years ago, up North mostly along the West of the Rhine. In the early 1800s, a family branch left Rotterdam in The Netherlands to migrate to the USA.

Since Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), it is known that Celtic people were the first inhabitants of Belgium and, with the Belgic Tribes, of England as well. (See more about that in the British Museum of London, U.K.).

Our most famous family member is Theodore de Bry (1528 - 1598). His engravings and publication of "The Discovery of America" are his today's best known work.