Antoine Depage
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Antoine Depage (born Bosvoorde, November 28, 1862; died Den Haag, 10 August 1925), was a Belgian surgeon; founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross. He married Marie Picard in 1893 and they had three children. She died on 7 May 1915 in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German submarine.
He studied medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and graduated magna cum laude in 1887. He became one of the founders and the first secretary of the International Surgical Society (1902 - 1912). In 1903 he founds a surgical institute, the Berkendael Institute, and Edith Cavell becomes its head nurse. On October 10, 1907, Depage founded L'Ecole d'Infirmiere Dimplonier and Edith Cavell became the first director of this new nursing school.
During World War I he established the military hospital l'Océan at De Panne. He became the first head of the surgical department of the Brugmann hospital (1923). Antoine Depage was a freemason and a member of the Grand Orient of Belgium.[1]
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