Herman Van der Wee

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Herman Frans Anna Van der Wee (born July 10, 1928 in Lier ) is a Belgian economic historian . He is a professor emeritus at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

Life

Van der Wee studied at the University of Leuven, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1949 and a Dr. jur., graduated in political and social sciences in 1951 and received his doctorate in history in 1963. He also studied at the Sorbonne in 1951/52 (École pratique des hautes etudes) and in 1952/53 at the University of London and the London School of Economics . In 1955 he became a lecturer at the University of Leuven, was given a full professorship there in 1969 and retired in 1993. From 1972 to 1974 he headed the Faculty of Economics.

He was also visiting professor at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve from 1972 to 1980 and at the St. Aloysius University of Brussels from 1972 to 1976. He was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1981/82, 1991, 1994), at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, in Stanford, Harvard (visiting professor 1997), Oxford (All Souls College 1985), Aberdeen, Berkeley (Rubens Professor 1994 ), held the Tinbergen Chair at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1987 and the Francqui Chair at the Free University of Brussels in 1980/81 and at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1991/92. 1987/88 he was visiting professor at the Sorbonne and in 1989 Ellen MacArthur professor in Cambridge. In 2004 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, in 2008 he held the Kluge chair at the Library of Congress, in 1999 he was visiting professor for European banking history in St. Gallen and in 2010 he held the van Dyck chair at UCLA.

He deals with social and economic history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, banking history and the history of the world economy since 1945.

In 1992 he received the AH Heineken Prize for History and he received the Prix Solvay and in 1968 the Prix de Stassart. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (1988), a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences (1977), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), the British Academy (1987) and an external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1983) . He is an Officer of the Order of Leopold (1990, Grand Officer 2007) and honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Brussels (1994) and the University of Leicester. In 1994 he was ennobled by the Belgian king (title of baron).

Fonts

  • The growth of the Antwerp market and the european economy (forteenth to sixteenth century), 3 volumes, Löwen, Paris, Den Haag: Nijhoff 1963
  • Historical aspects of the economische groei. Tien studies van de economische ontwikkeling van West-Europa en van de Nederlande in het bijzonder 12e-19e eeuw, Antwerp, Utrecht 1972
  • with K. Tavernier: La banque nationale de Belgique et la politique monetaire entre les deux guerres mondiales, Brussels, Belgian National Bank 1975
  • with E. Aerts: De economische ontwikkeling van Europa 950-1950, Löwen: Acco 1982, 12th edition 1996
  • De broken welvaartscirkel. De wereldeconomie 1945-1980, Leiden: Nijhoff 1983
    • German translation: The restrained prosperity. Reconstruction, growth, structural change in the world economy 1945-1980, dtv 1984
  • with E. Aerts, W. Dupont: De economische ontwikkeling van Europa. Documents. De Middeleeuwen 950-1450, Leuven 1985
  • Mensen maken divorced. De Kredietbank en de economische opgang van Vlaanderen 1935-1985, Tielt, Lannoo 1985
  • Histoire economique mondiale 1945-1990, Paris: Academia Duculot 1990
  • De wereldeconomie in opbouw 1750-1990, Löwen 1992
  • The low countries in the early modern world, Aldershot: Variorum 1993
  • with E. Aerts: Vlaams-Brabantse Muntsstatistieken, 2 parts, Löwen 1980, 1985 (for the period 1300-1506)
  • De Generale Bank 1822-1997, Tielt, Lannoo 1997 (also English edition in the same year: The General Bank)
  • with M. Verbreyt: Oorlog en monetaire politiek. De Nationale Bank van Belgie, de Emissiebank te Brussel en de Belgische regering, 1939-1945, Brussels 2005
  • with M. Verbreyt: A small nation in the turmoil of the second world war. Money, finance and occupation. University Press Löwen 2009
  • Editor: The great depression revisited. Essays on the economics of the thirties, Den Haag: Nijhoff 1973
  • Editor with Schoffer, Bornewasser: De Lage Landen van 1500 to 1780, Elsevier 1977, 5th edition 1992
  • Editor: The rise and decline of urban industries in Italy and the Low Countries (Late middle ages - early modern times), Universitätsverlag Löwen 1988
  • Published by: The history of european banking, Amsterdam, Mercatorfonds 1994
  • Editor with J. Blomme: The economic development of Belgium since 1870, Cheltenham 1997

With Raoul Van Caenegem and others, he was editor of the three-volume Winkler Prins Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (Elsevier) in 1977

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SURNAME Wee, Herman Van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wee, Herman Frans Anna Van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lier