List of Belgian historians

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
• Gilles li Muisis
• Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae
• Jean Mansel
• Jean d'Enghien
• Jean de Haynin
• 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)
• Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
• Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
• Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540)
• Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557)
• Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552)
• Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555)
• 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) and Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (1856)
• 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
• Édouard de Moreau (Church history)
• Anne Morelli (history of migration)
• Henri Pirenne (medievalist)
• Walter Prevenier
• Jan Roegiers (intellectual historian)
• Félix Rousseau (medievalist)
• Aloïs Simon (Church history)
• Jean Stengers (colonial history)
• Jacques Stiennon (medievalist)
• Egied-Idesbald Strubbe
• 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

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