Georges Brugmann

He studied at the Ecole Centrale de Commerce et d'Industrie in Brussels, before working at the family bank.

In 1857 he became chief financial officer of the newly founded Compagnie Générale du Matériel de Chemins de Fer, which supplied railway equipment to companies in Spain, Turkey and Italy, and in 1874 helped found the Société Générale de Tramways.

[1] Brugmann was an active philanthropist in the Association pour secourir les pauvres honteux (now Secours et Conseils), and served as consul general in Brussels for Sweden and Norway.

[1] He never married, and died in Brussels on 23 November 1900, leaving ten million francs for the founding of what is now Brugmann University Hospital.

[1] Houba-Brugmann metro station in Brussels is partly named after him, as are the Brugmann Mountains in Antarctica.