Charles Julien Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (1819–1896) was a civil servant in the Belgian ministry of foreign affairs, with a particular interest in heraldry and genealogy.[1] He was born in Mesnil-Saint-Blaise (Houyet), the second son of Charles Frédéric Guillaume, baron Stein d'Altenstein, and Marie-Catherine de Malmédy de Deignée. His father's family was originally from Germany. He married Justine Lysen (1827–1860), with whom he had three children, Julien, Armand and Clotilde.[2]
In 1845 he published a two-volume Armorial du Royaume de Belgique,[3] and from 1847 to 1888 he produced an Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique.[4] He died in Namur on 9 December 1896.
References
[edit]- ^ Paul Roger, Biographie générale des belges morts ou vivants (Brussels, Muquardt and De Roovers, 1849), p. 249.
- ^ Ch. Poplimont, La Belgique Héraldique, vol. 10 (Paris, Henri Carion, 1867), p. 236.
- ^ Volume 1 and volume 2 on Google Books.
- ^ Calixte Hudemann-Simon, La noblesse luxembourgeoise au XVIIIe siècle (Paris and Luxembourg, 1985), p. 578.