Etienne Sabbe

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Étienne Sabbe , Flemish Stephanus Emilius Maria , French Étienne Émile Maria (born August 21, 1901 in Ostend , † January 15, 1969 in Kortrijk ) was a historian and Belgian archivist general. He mostly published under the first name Étienne.

Life

Sabbe studied history at the University of Ghent and received his doctorate in 1925 under Henri Pirenne with a thesis on monastic reforms in the early Middle Ages. In 1928 he was placed in the Reich Archives in Brussels. He remained in the Belgian archives service his entire professional life.

Sabbe was one of the first archivists to recognize the historical value of the files of commercial enterprises and to record their files. During the German occupation of Belgium, in which the archival system of the country was determined by Georg-Wilhelm Sante , the Medievalist researched the history of Germanness in Belgium. From 1942 he was entrusted with the preservation of the holdings in the Antwerp Reich Archives. His main work is his work on the history of the Belgian flax industry from the Middle Ages to around 1880 (1943).

From 1947 to 1949 he was responsible for the repatriation of the archival materials from the Eupen , Malmedy and Sankt Vith districts from Germany to Belgium and negotiated the holdings of the Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy . From 1955 until his retirement in 1968 he was a Reich archivist and took care of the scientific, structural and organizational modernization of the Belgian archives. In 1964 he took over the chairmanship of the International Archives Council.

In 1964 he received the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • De kloosterhervormingen in Vlaanderen en Neder-Lotharingen in de IXe en Xe eeuw. Phil. Diss. Ghent, 1925
  • De Belgian vlasnijverheid. De zuidnederlandse vlasnijverheid tot het midden van de 19de eeuw. Bruges 1943
  • Histoire de l'industrie linière en Belgique. Brussels 1945
  • Anvers. Metropole de l'Occident. Brussels 1952

literature

  • Nationaal biografisch woordenboek. Volume 5, Brussels 1972. sv
  • Carlos Wyffels: In memoriam Étienne Sabbe (Oostende 1901-Kortrijk 1969) . In: Archief- en library centers in Belgium. Volume XL, 1969, pp. 262-269. (with bibliography)
personal data
SURNAME Sabbe, Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabbe, Stephanus Emilius Maria; Sabbe, Etienne Emile Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian historian and archivist general
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH East End
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1969
Place of death Kortrijk