Background
Son of a contractor / industrialist from Roeselare (Dutch pronunciation:, French: Roulers), a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
Son of a contractor / industrialist from Roeselare (Dutch pronunciation:, French: Roulers), a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
He went through the Greek and Latin humanities at Seminary Roeselare and for his Doctor of Philosophy in medicine (1948) he went to the Université catholique de Louvain. In 1941, upon his arrival in Leuven, Byttebier attended the University Universitas movement of canon Albert Dondeyne and was an active member.
The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. He established himself as a general practitioner in Kontich. From 1945, the board of the Catholic Flemish Student Alliance (KVHU) Professor
Dondeyne Byttebier learned to combine faith with culture and science.
He met, among others Pieter De Somer and Josué Vandenbroucke. In the postwar decades, Universitasgroep exerted an influence on religious practice, politics and even in medical practice.
Universitas exercised more influence on Byttebier. He was also inspired by progressive Christian thinkers such as Schillebeeckx, Küng, Wieringa Kuitert and Peter Schmidt.
In 1949 he moved to Kontich, married Jozefien De Boodt (Ghent, March 17, 1926) and was the father of five children, including the later councilor of Antwerp, Johan Byttebier.
De Boodt – Byttebier have nine grandchildren. Paul Byttebier was Christelijke Volkspartij (Christian People's Party) – schepen of Youth and Culture in Kontich (1964–1969). In 1967 he invited Staf Van Elzen to create a municipal school of painting.
lieutenant is now an institution with ten teachers and over 350 students.
Byttebier founded together with Gust Reins municipal consultative body for cultural life. In 1971, the Municipal Cultural Council Kontich was founded.
He was active in the General Syndicate of physicians from Belgium.
He is also a member of the Byttebier family.