Jan Van Rijswijck (14 February 1853 – 23 September 1906)[1] was a Belgian lawyer, liberal politician and journalist.

He started his education at the boarding school of Melle and continued his education at the Catholic University of Leuven and finally at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, where he graduated as a Doctor in Law on 20 April 1876.

In 1892, he succeeded Leopold De Wael as mayor of Antwerp.

Of the many speeches, which he held on judicial matters, Flanders and ships, only a few were published: on Abraham Lincoln (recitation, Antw.

In the Antwerp journals he published several articles from 1883 up to 2 September 1888, and most of the editorials he wrote for the De Kleine Gazet.