Lucien Pierre Auguste Constant Solvay (7 October 1851 - 15 August 1950) was a Belgian journalist, art historian and poet.
Solvay was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, on 7 October 1851 to Théodore Jean Baptiste Solvay, a virtuoso pianist (and piano teacher to the Duke of Brabant), and Fanny Van Helmont, the last direct descendant of the alchemist Jan Baptist van Helmont.
[1] After dropping out of medical school he studied law at the Université libre de Bruxelles while also following classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
[2] Rather than pursue either law or art professionally, he became a journalist and poet.
[3] During the Second World War he was a contributor to the collaborationist Cassandre, as a result of which he was expelled from the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium on 25 May 1945.