LC control no. | n 50044408 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935 |
Variant(s) | Pirenne, Jean Henri Otto Lucien Marie, 1862-1935 Pirenne, H. (Henri), 1862-1935 |
Birth date | 1862-12-23 |
Death date | 1935-10-24 |
Place of birth | Verviers (Belgium) |
Place of death | Uccle (Belgium) |
Field of activity | History--Study and teaching Middle Ages Economic history Belgium--History France--History |
Affiliation | Université de Liège Rijksuniversiteit te Gent |
Profession or occupation | Authors Historians Medievalists History teachers College teachers |
Found in | His 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) |
Associated language | dut fre |