{{Short description|Belgian lawyer and politician (1866-1938)}} {{Infobox politician | name = Paul Pastur | image = Paul Pastur - Livre d'or exposition de Charleroi 1911 - tome 1 - page 85 - 01.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 7 February 1866 | birth_place = Marcinelle, Belgium | death_date = 8 June 1938 | death_place = Marcinelle, Belgium | occupation = Politician<br>Lawyer<br>Educator | party = }} '''Paul Pastur''' (7 February 1866 – 8 June 1938) was a Belgian lawyer and politician from Hainaut.<ref>[https://www.wallonie-en-ligne.net/1995_Cent_Wallons/Pastur_Paul.htm Paul Pastur]</ref> He obtained a law degree of the University of Liège, and started working at the bar of Charleroi in 1893.
==Biography== Pastur was born on 7 February 1866 in Marcinelle, Belgium. Impressed by the riots of 1886, he became involved in defending the 27 workmen supposedly implied in the Great Plot. In 1892, together with Jules Destrée, he founded the Democratic Federation. He devoted himself to more egalitarian education and in 1903 he founded the Université du Travail in Charleroi. In 1927, he introduced Mother's Day in Belgium, based on the American example. Paul Pastur was a freemason.<ref>[http://www.mason.be/en/pas.htm "Paul Pastur"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912064350/http://www.mason.be/en/pas.htm |date=2009-09-12 }}. Accessed 21 August 2008.</ref>
==Death== Paul Pastur died on 8 June 1938 in Marcinelle, Belgium.
==Gallery== <gallery mode=nolines> Charleroi - monument Paul Pastur - 06.jpg|Paul Pastur, statue near the ''Université du Travail'' in Charleroi </gallery>
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==External links== * [http://www.utpp.be/ Université du Travail] *{{Commons category-inline}}
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