Fernand Deschamps (July 13, 1868 in Châtelineau – March 15, 1957 in Brussels)[1] was a Belgian intellectual who participated in the great socio-economic and ethical debates in the first half of the twentieth century.
At the age of sixteen Deschamps started working in the metal industry[2] Many years later he obtained the title of Doctor of Laws after he passed the examination by the Central Board of State (in Leuven).
At the same time he worked under the direction of Cyril Van Overbergh[6] '[7] at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Louvain, as a guest lecturer and as co-secretary of the journal Sociological Movement which was an Annex to the Neo-Scholastic Review.
[12][13] Until 1940 he participated actively and extensively in socio-political and religious debates in Catholic journals such as Le Vingtième Siècle and La Libre Belgique, usually on the first page.
With his best friend Georges Legrand, professor of social economy at the university faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Gembloux, whom he met at the ISP, he shared his ideas as regards evolution and its development.