[1] After obtaining a doctorate in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he studied History and Philosophy at the University of Bonn.
[1] In 1857, he was appointed to a professorship in law at the State University of Ghent, but he was removed from this position a year later by order of Prime Minister Charles Rogier due to his outspoken views on the rights of Catholics.
[1] The following year he established a publishing house that acquired Pierre Kersten's Journal historique et littéraire and launched the Revue Générale (1865), of which he became editor from 1874 to 1890.
[1] After more or less being forced out as editor in 1890, Haulleville was in 1891 appointed chief curator of the Royal Museums of Decorative and Industrial Arts and Halle Gate.
[1] In the early 1890s he repeatedly tried to get Tramways Bruxellois to extend a line to the new museum site in the Cinquantenaire Park, but was unable to provide the matching funds they required.