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Professor
Jean Corbisier
Professor Jean Corbisier
Born	23 September 1869; Brussel
Died	12 March 1928 (aged 58); Brussel
Nationality	Belgian
Known for	One of the founders of Catholic Scouting

Jean Corbisier, a Belgian professor, was one of the founders of Catholic Scouting.^[1]

Background

At the 1920 1st World Scout Jamboree in London Father Jacques Sevin SJ of France, professor Corbisier and Count Mario di Carpegna of Italy decided to create an international umbrella for Catholic Boy Scouts, the International Bureau of Catholic Scouting.^[2] Pope Benedict XV supported this idea and in 1922 at the 2nd International Scout Conference in Paris, Catholic Boy Scouts from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Ecuador, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain and Hungary created this umbrella International Catholic Scouting Organization (OISC). World War II put an end to the OISC.^[3]

portraits of Jean Corbisier

^ John S. Wilson (1959). Scouting Round the World (PDF) (First ed.). Blandford Press.
^ "Scouting for Alternative to Video Games". Zenit. Innovative Media Inc. 6 March 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
^ Pribich, Kurt (2004). Logbuch der Pfadfinderverbände in Österreich (in German). Vienna: Pfadfinder-Gilde-Österreichs. p. 187.

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