Auguste Duvivier studied medicine and graduated from the University of Leuven. He then pursued a specialization in Paris. He did not fully practice medicine, but was professor of natural history at the Central School of Jemmape in 1798.[2]
He then made a career in administration under the Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.[3]
^Charles Poplimont, "La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique, Volume 4", 1866