Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935 (Personal Name)

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)