List of Belgian historians

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This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states and made contributions to the history of Belgium.

Medieval Belgium

• Heriger of Lobbes (c.925–1007), compiler of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium to 667
• Anselm of Liège (1008–c.1056), continuator of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium from 667 to 1048
• Sigebert of Gembloux (c.1030–1112), author of Chronicon sive Chronographia and Gesta abbatum Gemblacensium
• Anselm of Gembloux (died 1136), continuator of Sigebert of Gembloux's Chronicon
• Renier of St Laurent (died 1188), author of Triumphale Bulonicum on the siege of Bouillon Castle, 1141
• Lambert of Ardres (fl. 1194–1203), author of Historia comitum Ghisnensium
• Giles of Orval, continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1048 to 1247
• Jacob van Maerlant (1230/40–1288/99), author of a world chronicle, the Spiegel Historiael
• Jan van Heelu (13th century), author of a Rymkronyk of the 1288 Battle of Worringen
• Jean de Hocsem (1278–1348), continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1247 to 1347
• Jan van Boendale (c.1280–c.1351), author of Brabantsche yeesten and Van den derden Eduwaert (an account of the 1340 Siege of Tournai)
• Jacques de Guyse (1334−1399), author of Annales Historiae Illustrium Principum Hannoniae (Annals of Hainaut)
• Jean d'Outremeuse (1338–1400), author of La Geste de Liége and Ly Myreur des Histors
• Jean de Stavelot ^[1]
• Gilles li Muisis ^[1]
• Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae ^[1]
• Jean Mansel ^[1]
• Jean d'Enghien ^[1]
• Jean de Haynin ^[1]
• Jacques de Hemricourt (1333–1403), author of the Miroir des nobles de Hesbaye
• Guillaume de Vottem (died 1403), author of a chronicle of Liège
• Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405), author of a chronicle of the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War
• Wein van Cotthem (c.1390–1457), author of two books of the Brabantsche yeesten
• Petrus de Thimo (1393–1474), author of Brabantiae historia diplomatica
• Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1400–1453), author of a chronicle of the later decades of the Hundred Years' War
• Georges Chastellain (died 1475), author of a chronicle of the period 1417–1474
• Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), memoirist and chronicler of the Burgundian Netherlands
• Jean Molinet (1435–1507), author of La complainte de Grece
• Costen van Halmale (1432/37–1508), initial compiler of the Annales Antwerpienses

Early-modern Belgium

• Filips Wielant (1440/1–1520), author of Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre
• Remi du Puys (active 1511–1515) ^[1]
• Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
• Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
• Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540) ^[1]
• Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557) ^[1]
• Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552) ^[1]
• Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555) ^[1]
• Joos de Damhouder (1507–1581)
• Marcus van Vaernewyck (1518–1569), author of Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en voornamelick in Ghendt 1566-1568 and De historie van Belgis
• Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572)
• Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589)
• Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
• Petrus Divaeus (1535–1581)
• Jacobus Marchantius (1537–1609), author of De rebus gestis à Flandriae comitibus (1557) and Flandria commentariorum (1596)
• Justus Lipsius (1547–1606)
• Floris Van der Haer (1547–1634)
• Guillaume Gazet (1554–1612)
• Franciscus Haraeus (1555?–1631)
• Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627)
• Ferry de Locre (1571–1614)
• Aubertus Miraeus (1573–1640)
• Erycius Puteanus (1574–1646)
• Jean-Baptiste Gramaye (1579–1635)
• Michel Routart (c.1580–1653), author of Oculus historiae (1628)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
• Antonius Sanderus (1586–1664), author of Flandria Illustrata (1641)
• Valerius Andreas (1588–1655), author of Bibliotheca Belgica (1623) and Fasti academici (1635)
• Gaspar Gevartius (1593–1666)
• Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), author of Sigilla comitum Flandriae (1639) and Genealogia Comitum Flandriae (1642–1643)
• Charles de Visch (1596–1666)
• Martin Valvekens (1604–1682)

Kingdom of Belgium

19th century

• Sylvain Balau
• Stanislas Bormans
• Victor Coremans
• Louis Prosper Gachard
• Arthur Gaillard
• Victor Gaillard
• Théodore Juste
• Godefroid Kurth
• Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove
• Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke
• Henri Lonchay
• François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, author of Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1841) ^[2] and Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (1856) ^[3]
• Charles Moeller
• Jean Moeller
• P. F. X. de Ram
• Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg
• Edouard Van Even
• Alphonse Wauters
• G. Henry Wouters, author of Historiae ecclesiasticae compendium (3 vols., 1842–1843); Dissertationes in selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita (4 vols., 1868–1872)

20th century

• Stephanus Axters (Church history)
• Ursmer Berlière (Church history)
• Wim Blockmans (medievalist)
• Wilfrid Brulez (economic history)
• Patricia Carson (medievalist)
• Alfred Cauchie (Church history)
• Lucien Ceyssens (Church history)
• Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (university history)
• Arthur De Schrevel (Church history)
• Marie de Villermont (women's history)
• François-Louis Ganshof (medievalist)
• Léopold Genicot (medievalist)
• Léon-Ernest Halkin (Church history)
• Karl Hanquet (medievalist)
• Paul Harsin (early modernist)
• Félix Magnette (18th and 19th centuries)
• Jules Mees (historical geography)
• Jos Monballyu ^{[4] [5]}
• Édouard de Moreau (Church history)
• Anne Morelli (history of migration)
• Henri Pirenne (medievalist)
• Walter Prevenier ^[6]
• Jan Roegiers (intellectual historian)
• Félix Rousseau (medievalist)
• Aloïs Simon (Church history)
• Jean Stengers (colonial history)
• Jacques Stiennon (medievalist)
• Egied-Idesbald Strubbe ^[7]
• Charles Terlinden
• Alfons Thijs (early modernist)
• Raoul Van Caenegem (medievalist)
• Leon van der Essen
• Herman Van der Wee (economic historian)
• J. A. van Houtte (social and economic historian)
• Raymond van Uytven (medievalist)
• Charles Verlinden (medievalist)
• Léopold Willaert (Church history)
• Lode Wils ^{[8] [9]}

21st century

• Hans Cools (early-modern history)
• Sophie De Schaepdrijver (20th-century history)
• Dirk Imhof (book history)
• Randall Lesaffer (legal history)
• Brigitte Meijns (medievalist)

Art historians

• Barbara Baert
• Marthe Crick-Kuntziger
• Dirk De Vos
• Elisabeth Dhanens
• Isabelle Errera
• Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert
• Philippe Roberts-Jones
• Adelbert Van de Walle
• Katlijne Van der Stighelen
• Jan Van der Stock
• Alphonse-Jules Wauters

Literary historians

• Rita Lejeune

Historians of philosophy

• Maurice De Wulf
• Adriaan Pattin
• Isabelle Stengers

References

1. L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935)
2. Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens on Google Books.
3. Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint on Google Books.
4. "'Studenten moeten meer uit hun kot komen'". 28 September 2013.
5. "'De heksen en hun buren' in boek". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 10 July 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
6. "'Dit is het meest vrije beroep ter wereld' Walter Prevenier". De Morgen (in Dutch). 1 October 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
7. Caenegem, Van; C, Raoul (1984). "Egied-Idesbald Strubbe 1897-1970". Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire. 150 (1): 135–142.
8. "Historicus Lode Wils: 'Ik voorzie dat België uit elkaar valt'". 9 July 2019.
9. "Kroniek" (PDF) (in Dutch). CegeSoma. n.d.