Georges Montefiore-Levi

Georges Montefiore-Levi studied at Jules Bordet Royal Athenaeum and University of Liège. Positions recorded include Senator of Belgium. Distinctions recorded are Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold, Legion of Honour, Officer of the Imperial Order of the Rose and Commander's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph.

• Name — Georges Montefiore-Levi • Born — 18 February 1832 • Birthplace — Streatham, United Kingdom • Died — 24 April 1906 • Place of death — Brussels, Belgium • Known for — Inventor of phosphorus bronze

He was born in Streatham, South London. His father, Isaac Levi, was a merchant, and his mother was a first cousin of financier Moses Montefiore.

A businessman and an active philanthropist, Montefiore-Levi represented Liège in the Senate from 1882 to 1901, and he was the president of the 1892 international monetary conference that met in Brussels. Montefiore-Levi founded one of Belgium's oldest engineering schools, the Institut Montefiore in Liège, and it later became part of the University of Liège. He also established an asylum for convalescent children in Esneux that he named after his wife. He had an interest in photography and was once president of the Belgian Association of Photography. He improved existing technology so that it was possible to take up to fifteen wax-paper negatives without opening a camera, and he introduced a canopy that allowed for the immediate processing of collodion negatives. In 1866, he married Hortense Montefiore-Bischoffsheim, daughter of Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim. He died at his home in Brussels in 1906.