Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella

Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
Prime Minister of Belgium
In office
20 October 1832 – 4 August 1834
Monarch Leopold I
Preceded by Felix de Muelenaere
Succeeded by Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
Personal details
Born 26 May 1790(1790-05-26)
Tournai, France
(now Luxembourg)
Died 5 May 1873(1873-05-05) (aged 82)
Brussels, Belgium
Political party Liberal Party

Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella (26 May 1790–5 May 1873) was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Later, he became a Belgian politician.

Born in Tournai, Goblet first became an officer in the French army but in 1814, he came in service of the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. At the moment of the Belgian insurrection on 16 November 1830, he joined the revolutionary forces. In the newly independent Belgium he became Minister for Foreign Affairs between 1831 and 1834. In 1837, he was raised to nobility. He was the grandfather of Eugene Goblet d'Alviella, a famous historian. He died in Brussels aged 82 in 1873.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Felix de Muelenaere
Prime Minister of Belgium
1832–1834
Succeeded by
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt