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Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935

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Personal name headingPirenne, Henri, 1862-1935
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Variant(s)Pirenne, Jean Henri Otto Lucien Marie, 1862-1935
Pirenne, H. (Henri), 1862-1935
Birth date1862-12-23
Death date1935-10-24
Place of birthVerviers (Belgium)
Place of deathUccle (Belgium)
Field of activityHistory--Study and teaching Middle Ages Economic history Belgium--History France--History
AffiliationUniversité de Liège
Rijksuniversiteit te Gent
Profession or occupationAuthors Historians Medievalists History teachers College teachers
Found inHis Bibliographie de l'histoire de Belgique, 1979: t.p. (Henri Pirenne) p. viii (H. Pirenne)
Henri Pirenne (23 December 1862-24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero; studied at the University of Liège; became Professor of History at the University of Ghent in 1886, a post he held until the end of his teaching career in 1930; born, Verviers, Belgium; died, Unccle, Belgium; genre, Medieval history, economic history, Belgian history)
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